About this time last year we experimented with a wooden pallet garden. We had an assortment of veggies all happily doing what veggies do, but between marauding wildlife and the Summer of smoke and intense heat, we decided to just let it run wild and see what survived.
Underneath 30cm (12”) of snow and 5cm (2”) of ice, being bombed by falling branches, and then iced and snowed on all over again a week later, not only did our parsley and strawberry plants survive, they thrived.
The true survivalists!
Look at all those baby strawbs!
I’m not sure how tender these leaves would be but in truth I’m not game to pick ‘em to find out. We’ll just leave ‘em feral and pick the new shoots when they pop up
The strawberries seem to survive pretty much anything, don’t they?
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Ours have not survived the Downunder heat…currently 40’C at 18.13
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We very seldom get above the mid twenties here…
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That kind of heat’s a killer. I hope you and the Senior Cat are doing OK.
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Just about. 😀
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Go the greenery! Determined pushers of that life force…
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Sometimes, when I get into a bit of despair (or rage, often at the same time) at what humans are doing to our lovely world, I remind myself that we occupy only the tiniest fraction of Her surface, and She could just shrug us off without raising an eyebrow if She wanted to, and continue along quite happily without us.
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Oh yes. And we are such a flash in the pan of Her timeline of existence too- relatively speaking, we’ve only been here for 24 hours… it’s just a fucken dramatic 24hrs!!
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Heh, heh, heh .. that it is. 🙂
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Not surprised about the parsley, it’s a tough character, that one. I have heard it can be weird too, if it doesn’t like you, it won’t grow. It won’t grow for me, so whatever that means…
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I’ve noticed plants have similar personality quirks as us humans. 😀
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Well, they do say they can feel pain too, which makes you think…
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Well done
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We thought so too. 😀
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Wild strawberries invade our lawn on the slightest whim of the wind.
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Clever little vegemites, aren’t they 😀
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I’d leave them for the birds an squirrels if they produced much fruit, but they don’t, and they do devastate the lawn by leaving holes.
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That’s pretty impressive!
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No-one messes with the parsley! 😀 … or the strawbs!
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Hurrah! I love how plants come back on their own. Strawberries are one of the things I want to grow this year, just to see if I can.
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This lot produce some magnificent fruit but the critters manage to eviscerate them before we can, so maybe with so many new plants taking root, we might just be in the running to score a few. 🙂
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I’m amazed at what comes up after the cold and snow. It looks like you’re going to have some early producers. 🙂
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Even more amazing that they were underneath it all along … how did they stay green? How did they keep getting nutrients out of frozen soil? … so many unanswerable questions! 😀
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My chard survived this year. That’s never happened. A strange winter. 🙂
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Heh, heh, heh … Hardcore Chard! 😀
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Those all look so radiant and green–good for them!
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And the colour’s not anything they took on after the snow melted. They came out from under it that way! 😀
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