Are Those Agaves Over There?

I like to buy locally-grown produce at fruit stands and just stopped by Sterino Farms Produce Market in Puyallup to pick up some raspberries, peaches, and some veggies.  Our strawberry season is brief and usually over by mid July.  While there are everbearing varieties, I've been told that they don't bear heavily enough to make them commercially viable.  Imagine my surprise to see these Oregon strawberries so late in the season!  While one can find California-grown strawberries year round, they're giant, tough things bred for shipping stability and size, not for taste.  One last taste of red sweetness was divine!







Are those Agaves?  Yes, Agave guiengola 'Creme Brulee.'  I've never seen them offered in such large sizes in this region and the price was certainly right! (At 30 bucks for a three gallon size, it was the most expensive agave there) It had to come home with me.








 Just when I thought I'd fallen asleep at the wheel and somehow woke up in Southern California,  some more common northwest offerings came into view.



I was thrilled with my strawberries and 'Creme Brulee.' Now what was it that I came here to get?  Even more exciting is the fact that  around the time the pumpkins, gourds, and dried corn stalks start showing up, plants and pots are usually discounted by 50%.  See anything you need?