Three Plant Purchases

Strawberries, Grapes & Tomato

May 8, 2010

I love plant shopping anytime but in the spring it is even more exciting!  I seriously will shop for plants wherever I can find them ranging from the big box stores like Canadian Tire to specialized plant nurseries to farm stands.  I stopped at Canadian Tire to see what they had in stock knowing full well it is really to early to get much in the ground as far as plants.  I bought a grape vine (Valiant) so that should be interesting.  It has been years since I've had a grape vine and if I recall correctly the grapes were white and sour but the birds loved them.  I bought June bearing strawberries (Veestar).  There are some strawberries here that have somewhat naturalized but I'm not sure what the variety and there are a few volunteer strawberry plants from last year's everbearing hanging basket.  I plant a bed with the new strawberries so I'm sure what I have while enjoying the volunteers.  Despite having a lot of tomatoe plants in various stages from seedlings to ready to fruit, I could not resist another tomato plant so bought a Beefsteak.  When it comes to tomatoes I focus on beefsteak, cherry and heirloom varieties because I have all the canning tomatoes (paste) I can use for free so I save the garden space for those tomatoes I don't get free.

Happy Gardening!

Garden Gnome
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