My, my how does my garden grow. The potatoes are growing like, well weeds. There’s no other description. Week 3 and over half of the trash cans are full of compost already.
My husband decided to expand our strawberry patch. In order to do so, we had to move the strawberries to a new area as the previous bed wasn’t large enough. Unfortunately, the space that appeared to be the best for strawberries is around the metal shed where we have the potatoes. No worries, we would just move the potatoes to a spot nearer the house and fence in around the shed for the strawberries. 
Please note that the trash cans are almost half full. Do you know how much a half-full can of compost weighs? Not to mention the fact that I bought the cheapest trash cans not the really good hard plastic kind that you can drag or pick-up easily. There should be a video of Toby moving these; however, he completed this project while I was at work. All I got was the second-hand version of his moving them.
The strawberries are doing well. The fence was put up because animals kept digging around in them and I got tired of constantly replanting. We probably won’t have any strawberries until year but I’m already looking forward to fresh strawberry shortcake.
Speaking of shortcake, I did make a strawberry shortcake for my husband the first week or two we were married. I was so excited. I bought the little cakes, bought strawberries and cool whip. I put the cakes into pretty bowls, cut the tops off the strawberries and artfully arranged them on the top, covered and put them in the fridge until time to eat. After supper, I got the two bowls out and covered them with cool whip. I was watching carefully as he took the first bite, took a drink, took another bite and then said, “these are really dry.” I was crushed. I thought I was doing something really special and it flopped. The next day I went over to Sis. Malcom’s house and asked her about it. She asked me a few questions. Did I cut the strawberries up? Did I put sugar on them? Did I stir them so they would make juice? All my answers were NO. NO. NO. So what, my first attempt at strawberry shortcake was a bit dry, it would be better next time, right?
The trash cans of potatoes are now lined up in front of the house. I’m sure the neighbors love them. It gives new meaning to trashy neighbors!
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