Saturday, May 21, 2011

Its been a "berry" busy spring

Hello again i am sorry for how long it has been between my posts but the spring has been flying by while i have undertaken my expansion plans for the berries. this season. The year i have decided to be a lot more ambitious with the amount of strawberries i am growing last season i had 375ft and now i am just shy of 1800ft altogether and that is without buying any plants just thinning the runners out and transplanting. So far my plan or the mental picture i have in my mind depending on what your definition of a plan is progressing great and the plants have been get a lot of rain and cool but still quite comfortable temperatures for a newly rooting strawberry plant. The plants from last year have also taken off quite well this year to be honest the whole patch is doing better than my most optimistic projections considering how hard last winter was. The strawberries have been budding solidly all week and i hope to be picking in about 2 weeks. I will post again soon with some photographic evidence once i have the berry field fully spruced up with new mulch for the season so its looks presentable.