With the progression of spring, more flowers appear. It is a great time to be outdoors after the cold winter and the sight of these flowers brings a lot of joy.
While most people revel in the beauty of annuals and perennials, a gardener will look out for the flowers on the vegetable and the fruit trees. These give hope for a harvest worth eating! Strawberry is one such looked forward to fruit. The white flowers start popping up in the October and quickly turn into fruits. Once they start flowering, there is a ongoing supply of strawberries (if the birds/possums don't get to them!).
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| Strawberry flower |
Another vegetable to look out for is the cucumber. We have had cucumber plants before, but they were not pollinated enough to give us any cucumbers. This year the task is to prop them up on some support to allow the bees to access the flowers.
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| Cucumber flower |
Finally, who can forget the humble potato. Not the prettiest flowers, nor the most elegant of plants. But the most bang for you buck! Plant one and you will get a kilo of harvest from each plant. This year is our fourth turnover from the one we planted in 2011.
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| Potato flower |
