How my garden grows…. harvest time!

So I’m still concerned about the tomatoes.  There are at least a dozen growing – but a few have been rotting from the bottom.  I thought I was over watering, so I held back a little – and most of the leaves shriveled up. Thankfully it rained again last night – so for the last few days, the choice of whether or not to water was taken out of my hands.  Is it odd that not a single one of my tomatoes is ripe enough to eat?

Luckily, tomatoes aren’t the only thing I’m growing.  And today, I harvested some fruit.  I have six strawberry plants in the ’strawberry box’.  I had 3 whole strawberries that were perfectly ripe and ready to eat.  After picking them, I rinsed them off and ate them – still warm from the sun.  I know I’ve had fresh-from the garden and just-picked wild strawberries before, but none have tasted as good as these.  Sweet, with a hint of tang.  Juicier than any I’ve ever had.

I’m not expecting to have a bushel of berries to enjoy this summer – but I’ll be sure to savour every one that I do get.

Thoughts on Search Engine Terms

For those of you reading this that don’t blog (are there still people out there not blogging?), you may not know that I get to see the search engine terms that people use to get to my blog.  I’ve only been up and running for a short time, but so far, some of the terms have amused me.

Apparently, people are very interested in Mr. Bourdain.  Searching for the following brings you here:

• Chicken Bourdain (I’m not sure if the person was looking for a recipe, or calling Mr. Bourdain a chicken)
• Anthony Bourdain Michael Ruhlman (Poor Michael, always seems to be second)
• I hate Anthony Bourdain (!!! – really?  It gets you here?)

And here are a few random searches I liked:

• Why is Chinese Chicken so nasty? (again… were you looking for info on recipes or actual chicken from China?)
• How to work stuff  (umm.. what kind of stuff?  did my blog help you at all?)
• Thoughts about me (I doubt my blog had thoughts about you… I’m not sure what you were hoping would turn up on the Internet about you…)
• Tomato plants + over watering ( sadly, I think that may be my issue – do you think that’s what’s happening to my tomatoes?  I’ll have to take a picture of a rotten one so you can see it for yourself)

That’s it for now, but I hope more interesting searches will bring people here – and I’ll report back when they do!