Saturday April 26 - check out the bloomin' strawberries!

I get hungry just looking at the garden.  The tatsoi, pac choi and lettuces are starting to get bigger leaves, and the first spring onions are ready for harvest (just pick the big ones, skipping a few in between).  In the greenhouse, the tomatoes are starting to look like tomato plants, and soon they'll be ready for transplant into bigger pots.

Blooming strawberries

Tomato plants in the greenhouse

Pots ready for tomato plants

Meanwhile, out in the garden...

Red pac choi

Tatsoi

Red leaf lettuce

Spring onions and David's delicious eggs

Science lesson of the day:  take a close look at the strawberry flower next time you're in the garden.  Each of the tall stalks in the flower in a circle around the edge are "stamens," made up of a filament (the long white stalk) and an anther (the foot shaped thing on top) that produces pollen.  That's the boy part of the flower.  The brush-like things in the middle are the "pistils", made up of a stigma (top part), a style (long part) and the ovule at the bottom.  That's the girl part of the flower. 

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