Sang as it Ever Was

Cut down a quarter of the mixed greens (seen above) and thinned out the butter lettuce plants to make a big salad for dinner tonight! My roommates didn't really eat any, so I ended up eating three bowls of salad to make sure none of it went to waste.

I also have a lot of baby bok choy in the fridge, all from thinning out the bok choy row. I could thin it two more times before letting the last grow to full size. Once you can keep the rabbits out (also the bugs), growing greens isn't too bad. There will come a time again where I may only have a balcony garden (or less!), so I'm trying to keep a note on what's easiest to grow.

The baby choys will probably be stir fried. They keep pretty well in the fridge, so maybe using them as a delicious additive to ramen?

Strawberries are starting to pile up :3

I need to replant all of my cucumbers, the little plants didn't survive the move into the garden

Many of the strawberries are starting to ripen, so I've deployed a strategy a fellow Cohostian* recommended last year - I've scattered some shiny red rocks around the base of the bed. Theoretically, the creature. s that can still get in my garden (like squirrels and birds) will try to eat those, find them inedible, and think the rest of the berries are also inedible.

Not sure if it will work, but I'm always looking for ways to deter local wildlife that isn't deadly. It's one of the best parts of gardening too, is that every garden is full of little science experiments.

*I feel terrible that I can't remember who, and I was not smart enough to give all of the gardening posts their own tag ;n;

In the middle of the strawberry patch, there's something that looks really like a strawberry plant, but it's more tower shaped and has no flowers or fruit yet. Anyone happen to know what it is?