March 7. I have been growing Strawberries in earthboxes for the last few years, but this year I decided it is time to do some in the ground, so I dedicated one of my 4X4 beds to strawberries. Tristar is well suited for growing in this area, and I love the flavor of this berry!

I also got a Bio-Dome started with tomatoes. (with half an eye on the Oscars)

Our GoldRush dwarf apple tree finally got in the ground this year. If you have not tried GoldRush apples, you should.

It is one of the best apples I have ever tasted, crisp, not too tart and not too sweet. Just right. Like the flavor of 5 apples packed into one. Stores for a long time.

In short: The Perfect Apple

Cross pollinates with Liberty (among others)

Learn more about GoldRush here

I baked a cake with GoldRush apples today.

Recipe:

150 grams butter
1/3 cup organic, unrefined sugar
1 egg
3 large apples
1 tsp cinnamon
A little more than 1 &  1/8 cup flour (but not a full 1 &  1/4)

Melt the butter, mix with sugar and beat until fluffy. Add one egg and mix until smooth.

Add flour and mix in well.

Spread on bottom of an oiled and floured pie form.

Cut apples in slices and put in plastic bag with cinnamon and shake until evenly covered with cinnamon.

Stick the slices as close together as you can throughout the dough mixture.

Bake at 350ºF for 40 minutes.

This little fellow is only one of many reasons why I grow organically!

I was just about to pick this Black Prince tomato when I spotted the frog.

I’ll pick this tomato tomorrow instead.

While working on making a short promotional video for the new Google Adwords training course, things kept going wrong.

I eventually got one done, but here, instead, are all the bloopers collected:

PPC Domination Blooper Reel

Some photos of our recent snow in Wilsonville. Not much for most of you, but very unusual for us here in this part of Oregon.