Well its summer now and the spring is  just a memory its hard for me to believe how fast this year is going. The last two months have been very busy but now that my lull between the first and second round of strawberries is over i will be even busier since the whole of the expanded berry patch will be producing berries now. I hope to have my first employee start soon now that i will be able to have enough to pick that i can't do it on my own. The rest of the spring has gone fairly well the strawberry season has started off strong this time last year I only had a trickle of berries. This year I had a steady harvest and the plants are still growing great and are about to start producing the second harvest which from the look of the blossoms will be quite heavy. Hopefully if the weather stays good until October I can have three more months of berries. If the plants follow the same pattern of growth as last year then peak production should be at the end of August. The rest of the garden is doing ok better than last season in some ways but some things are quite behind. This is because of the challenging growing conditions that I and other farmers who are suffering worse are facing this summer because of how wet and cool the season started out and how dry it has become now. I hope to have a wider variety of produce within the next few weeks and will be opening my vegetable stand again for the late summer and early fall once i have a steady enough supply of berries again. I would have liked to have opened earlier this year but the reality of being a one man operation is that wholesaling the berries is the most efficient use of my time and energy while still earning a fair return on my product. I hope all your summers are going great and lets hope the weather is great.