Late May at the Farm: Strawberries, Passion Vines & What’s Next?

Yes. We still have strawberries! How much longer is anyone’s guess, but it looks like we could have some overlap with the blackberries. A few years ago when we planted the blackberries we had this vine show up in the patch as a “weed”. Turns out it was purple passion flower or maypop or passion fruit. Yes. Passion fruit. I’ve been slowly experimenting with cultivating this wild plant so we could have more of it. It has an absolutely stunning flower, is an amazing pollinator plant and it is the host plant for the Gulf Fritillary (passion butterfly).