Barren booberries, stolen strawberries,...what's next...
In a previous post [6/19], I shared the story of the $38 strawberry plant from QVC. Even though two years prior to this, I had purchased 3 blueberry plants quaranteed to produce buckets of blueberries
...this is year #3 and they are now dubbed the barren bonzai booberries...they have neither grown nor borne fruit! Yes, they are alive and winter in my garage, but I have to wonder why I don't have plants that look like this...
...this is year #3 and they are now dubbed the barren bonzai booberries...they have neither grown nor borne fruit! Yes, they are alive and winter in my garage, but I have to wonder why I don't have plants that look like this...So, when the strawberry 'kit' was demonstrated, and it came with the container, the dirt, the plants, and the promise of 'ever bearing strawberries...this year. Ok...there's a fool born every minute... and to take a chance again on bearing fruit makes me a 'born again fool! ' We would have strawberries growing right on my front deck. It was so exciting! They flowered, they sprouted 'porcupine erasers', they grew bigger, they grew redder, and just as we were about to harvest the ripened fruit...overnight...they were gone!! Outrageous!!!
We moved the strawberry planter to the backyard 'fenced in...dogpen ' where the rest of the container garden was growing just fine! We saw new flowers, we saw the beginnings of new strawberries, we watched the ripening process[again] and 
AGAIN...gone!
AGAIN...gone!Not a single strawberry did we get to pick before that 'strawberry-picking phantom' plucked the newly present... promising... plump ...protected...strawberries...again!
At this point, I have given up any hope for my own 'homegrown' berries!
And then, Nic walked in and said," Hey Mare, did you see that there are 2 cantalopes
growing in the garden?"
growing in the garden?""Really! I didn't think they would come to fruition?"[sorry bout that!].
Here we go again! If those cantalopes grow to their normal size, what cantalope burglar will appear to drag these large, heavy, bowling balls of fruit? I think they 'can't elope' with them this time. [Ooph! I just can't help it!]
And if they are big enough to carry it off, [the coveted cantalope, that is], I probably wouldn't want to be eyeball to eyeball with whatever it is ...that is bounty hunting in my backyard! Boo! Hiss!
I'll keep you posted.
Labels: nature
posted by Mare at
12:38 PM
10 Comments:
haha! GOOD LUCK!!! They say the 3rd time is a charm.
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Anonymous, At
August 14, 2009 at 2:11 PM
My grandma used to grow strawberries and she put rubber snakes around the plants to keep critters away. Hope things go better for the cantaloupe!
mls
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Anonymous, At
August 14, 2009 at 2:57 PM
Hi Mare, just this week here in Australia, a cucumber farmer had forty thousand dollars worth of his produce, ripe and ready for picking, stolen, overnight. I don't think it was the local bunny rabbits.
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Rowe, At
August 14, 2009 at 7:20 PM
I can definitely relate to your problem about the disappearing fruit. Blueberries would sure have been nice. They are one of my favorite fruit. I remember getting very few strawberries when I tried to grow them in Illniois. I tried watermelon and got just one puny one from a big plant. Still.... we keep trying.
I'm wishing you tons and tons of luck with the cantalopes.
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Kay, At
August 14, 2009 at 8:05 PM
that's why my hubby gave up gardening, too much work and too little product-most of ours died with viruses...I wonder what is stealing your stuff?
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Great Grandma Lin, At
August 14, 2009 at 11:18 PM
I loved your post.
I also have bounty hunters in my backyard.
You made me Laugh out loud!
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Peggy, At
August 15, 2009 at 5:43 PM
We have an ongoing race with the birds, to see who gets to eat the strawberries. The birds win each time. We put a sort of net around the plants, but they still get to the fruits before us. We let the fruits get riper, redder, juicer, and the night before we are to pick them up...just like your intriguing burgler...
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Celeste Maia, At
August 15, 2009 at 6:28 PM
Oh that is a bummer..I would have so many suspects here I don't know where I would start...Can you put them under a net of some kind?
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RamblingWoods2.com, At
August 15, 2009 at 10:40 PM
Hi Mare, I know I may have mentioned this to you, we have a scarecrow in the garden with a speaker wired to him and rapp or country music is played 24/7, NO critters have gotten one plant or veggie. However, last Sunday with the 6 1/2" of rain we now have rotten veggies. NO one can win this year. There is a wonderful place that opened on Rt 20 just west of Skaneateles and you don't even have to bend over to pick the strawberries. Maybe, the blueberry plants needs a companion (if you know what I mean) Love ya MOW
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Anonymous, At
August 16, 2009 at 8:43 PM
Mare,
My money is on:
1. rabbits
2. birds or
3. deer
All three can gain access to your yard although I don't think the deer would walk up on your deck!
LR
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Anonymous, At
August 19, 2009 at 10:57 PM
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