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Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the posts (there were several) about the strawberry bed on the rock wall?\u00a0 Well, we&#8217;re back to that again.\u00a0 Sigh.\u00a0 If you&#8217;ve been following the blog, you know there were a number of problems that were created because The Happy Homesteader (me) just <em>had<\/em> to have a strawberry bed right out the back door where a retaining wall is.\u00a0 Remember that?\u00a0 How picturesque it would be?\u00a0 And how easy it would be to just pop out the door every morning throughout the summer and graze on those luscious ever bearing berries?\u00a0 Well, yeah &#8230; about that.<\/p>\n<p>The berries that I ordered from the local extension office last year were supposed to be Seascape, an ever bearing variety that would provide small batches of fresh strawberries throughout the growing season.\u00a0 Apparently, something got mixed up somewhere along the way because the berries all ripened at once at the end of May.\u00a0 So <em>not<\/em> ever bearing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thelittlehalfacre.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_0781.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1746 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/thelittlehalfacre.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_0781.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1000px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1000\/750;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t want a bunch of ripe berries all at once.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t want to make strawberry jam.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t want frozen berries taking up space in my little freezer compartment.\u00a0 I wanted FRESH berries!!!\u00a0 Yes, I&#8217;m shouting!<\/p>\n<p>Plan B &#8212; find a <em>new<\/em> location for strawberries so I can order and receive the<em> right<\/em> berries next year and have <em>fresh<\/em> strawberries over an <em>extended season<\/em>.\u00a0 Great!\u00a0 Just one more project; what&#8217;s the big deal?\u00a0 Sigh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the posts (there were several) about the strawberry bed on the rock wall?\u00a0 Well, we&#8217;re back to that again.\u00a0 Sigh.\u00a0 If you&#8217;ve been following the blog, you&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[78],"class_list":["post-1751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gardening","tag-ever-bearing-strawberries"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Back to the Strawberries . . . 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