Fresh News
2012, straight from the strawberry
patch.
Thursday Jan 19 ---- Getting
closer! This Spring like weather is wonderful. It has us motivated
and excited about the upcoming season. The plants seem to be cautiously
responding with a small amount of growth. Today we are going to work
on installing two inflatables for the kids to jump on - should be
interesting. The temperatures look mild for the next week, will we have an
early season??????? our weather changes so that February might turn out colder
than January so who knows. We will be opening in March, soon we will
be able to say if it is early or late March.
Friday Jan 6
---- The weather this week has been amazing! I have tried in
the past not to talk about the weather so much but I just can't help
it. Everything we do here has something to do with the weather.
I have now started looking at five different weather forecasts each day -
watching for cold weather headed our way. We want to make sure the
Strawberry plants do not go below 15 degrees in the month of January, 32 degrees
in February. We have started making sand bags to hold the covers
down. Getting the covers out will be next. My mother is
busy pulling weeds in amongst the plants (I did not ask her to! that is her own
doing (bless her heart, Love you Mom)). Soon we will get the whole family
out there (gotta get some work out of the girls before they go back to
college), if you hear weeping and gnashing of teeth you will know I asked
them to go pull weeds. And just so you know, I have already done a bunch of rows
by myself.
The onions we planted in December are
struggling. They always look bad after planting though and should pull out
of it.
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2011
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2010
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2009
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