Hello again i am back it has been a really busy last half of the summer i cant believe its almost fall already i am definitely not ready to even think about winter yet. In the last month a number of really good things happened. The biggest was that i have my first wholesale account for my strawberries and i am getting a great price for them. The strawberries have really come into there own in the last month i am now averaging about 20-25 quarts every two days for my customer while still have more than enough to meet for myself to eat. I hope that my peak production for the season will be 30 quarts which is a lot higher than i though i would manage in my first season but is still small potatoes in the long run. The strawberry patch has definitely been my star performer of the season and because of this i have begun to realize that expanding the amount of strawberries and raspberry i am growing will be the most profitable area for me to focus on as the foundation for the business. I do not know how much i will expand them by yet it will depend on a few different factors but i hope to at least triple the amount of plants i have growing. The great thing is that even if i manage to expand more than that next year i will not have to buy a lot more plants. This is because i can subdivide and spread out all the strawberry runners that have grown off of the ones i planted this spring and transplant all the tiny raspberry canes that have begun to pop up like weeds in the raspberry rows. The raspberries have also produced better than i thought for how many i planted. The raspberries i am picking now are the nicest, firmest and largest ones i have ever seen in my life hands down the photos don't really show it but believe me they are. Well that's it for now lets hope the beginning of fall will bring one last round of nice weather so that the berries will keep on fruiting.
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