Strawberries!!!

My family loves strawberries and a big can of Redi-Whip. My wife makes a great strawberry shortcake. The shortcake is on the dry side. But that's the best part since you have to add cream and more Redi-Whip to soften up the shortcake.

Now let's be honest, strawberries from the store rarely taste really good. You just have to pretend that they taste like strawberries, and imagine that they are sweet. So why not try to grow some for myself?

On the same hill that I planted 25 perennials last spring and tulips and daffodils last fall, why not plant 22 strawberry plants to act like a ground cover to the perennial flowers? So that's what I did.

At the nursery on the way to the kids' gymnastics gym, I picked up two packages of of bareroot strawberry plants - June bearing, All Star #1. My potting mix was one part compost from decomposed playground mulch, one part leaf mold, and one part red worm compost.