Carolyn: Well, um, er…those are actually a particular strawberry varietal called the Foreclosure Berry…probably a cousin of the famous tomato called the Mortgage Lifter! The house next door to our garden was foreclosed upon recently and a short fence between the properties came down, leaving us easy access to a weedy, overgrown strawberry patch in the adjacent yard. No one is around to eat them, so we nick a few! And we’re keeping an eye on the apple trees in the front yard too…I guess that’s called urban foraging!

Mom: And of course the exciting thing about a potato flower is that it means the plant is starting to set potatoes underground! Which reminds me that I put one last layer of box around our potato plants and need to run over today or tomorrow to fill them with more soil…