Strawberry Season!!
(***Hey Smashy! Just a quick note to say 'hi' and that we're all thinking about you and really missing you! Laying in the yard, petting big Panzer eating Strawberries would sure be great to share with you! Lady Bug really likes Strawberries too, like tomatoes! She 'grumbles' with flared nostrils for them! Adventures yesterday as Dennis's damn cows were loose in our vegetable fields when we came home from market! Oooo, I was quite 'angry'... Bug was freaking out, doing that blowing smoke, pricked tail storming around at them. More of a guard horse!.... Dad mentions you almost every day and always smiles and says 'Austin'....Babca is just very sad now and doesn't understand. Please be well and come home to the farm soon!)
So last year we spent a great deal of time planting and caring for this new strawberry patch! It's nice to see your hard work pay off with all the customers literally diving at the tables to snatch a few quarts of our fresh strawberries! In order to grow organic strawberries we readied a nice plot for them. Rich, heavier soil back in Field 105. The plants came from G.W. Allen in New Brunswick. Certified Organic plants are not readily available, so we do buy the conventional ones. So last year we got the shipment of 'druggy' dormant plants and planted them in our organic soil. I look at this process as like 'rehab' for the young strawberries plants! They root down into organic compost rich soil, are weeded by hand and cultivated. We also bed them down with organic straw! By this year when they began to blossom and grow they were just fueling themselves with all organic goodness! The patch was alive with bees and critters and most importantly NO chemical CRAP like fungicides or pesticides have been dumped on them!!! Organic strawberries smell amazing! We grow an early type which is smaller and softer but with a sweet, 'wild' strawberry flavour. Our main season variety is a lot bigger, firmer and throws an excellent flavor too! We should have an abundance to share for the next two week! Yes, strawberry season goes fast! Eat your fill now!!!
So last year we spent a great deal of time planting and caring for this new strawberry patch! It's nice to see your hard work pay off with all the customers literally diving at the tables to snatch a few quarts of our fresh strawberries! In order to grow organic strawberries we readied a nice plot for them. Rich, heavier soil back in Field 105. The plants came from G.W. Allen in New Brunswick. Certified Organic plants are not readily available, so we do buy the conventional ones. So last year we got the shipment of 'druggy' dormant plants and planted them in our organic soil. I look at this process as like 'rehab' for the young strawberries plants! They root down into organic compost rich soil, are weeded by hand and cultivated. We also bed them down with organic straw! By this year when they began to blossom and grow they were just fueling themselves with all organic goodness! The patch was alive with bees and critters and most importantly NO chemical CRAP like fungicides or pesticides have been dumped on them!!! Organic strawberries smell amazing! We grow an early type which is smaller and softer but with a sweet, 'wild' strawberry flavour. Our main season variety is a lot bigger, firmer and throws an excellent flavor too! We should have an abundance to share for the next two week! Yes, strawberry season goes fast! Eat your fill now!!!
