Our plants have just emerged from under the snow!

Strawberries 2008

STRAWBERRIES ARE ABOUT DONE:  JULY 20, 2008

Upick $2.10

We Pick $3.15

pHOTOS FROM June 21, 2008 

The heat today did us some good!

June 14, 2008

Photos Taken June 9, 2008

Ready for pickers, where's the sun?

We expect the crop to be ready sometime around June 20, please check here or call. 

Our berries have not been sprayed with insecticides.  Our strawberry fields have NOT been sprayed with herbicides.  We will be using an ORGANIC fungicide spray to avoid wide spread fruit rot in case of a wet spring/summer.  Update:  We did not spray fungicide, so our berries are SPRAY FREE!

We use a combination of organic and chemical fertilizers.

Here are our rows on April 27, 2007.

Here are our Strawberry flowers just before pollination. The first flowers started around May 5 - some varieties are in full bloom May 15!!

The rows are ready for straw!  May 13

The straw is down.  June 1, 2007!

The green berries are what we have now and they started around May 25.  This picture taken June 2.

And another.....

June 7 Update:  The berries are starting to swell, we have some larger than 1" across.

New plant we planted this year and will be harvested next year.  Check out the ladybug!

We will have 5 rows of 2 year old plants this year.  We have a good crop on them this year!  Raspberries are usually ready sometime after July 5

 Raspberries 2008

Photos from June 14, 2008

Our 5 new rows have a good bloom on them so we are hopeful for a bigger crop this year!

May 25, 2008 - They grow so fast, they don't look like this anymore!

April 29, 2008

Our raspberries were huge and delicious last year.  We had only 3 rows in production.  This year, we will have an additional 5 rows in their first year of production so we should have a few more berries available.  Next year we hope to have a lots available. In addition we hope to increase the size of our patch in 2009 or 2010.

Our raspberries are fertilized with compost, fish emulsion and chemical fertilizers.  There are no insecticides or herbicides sprayed on the plants at any time.  We spray a fungicide on the root zone in the fall to control for Phytophotora root rot.  We also apply organic amendments to the soil to help control for root rot.  There are no sprays on the flowers or berries.

Here are the Raspberry rows on April 27, 2007.

May 13, 2007

June 1, 2007 - The raspberry patch is in full bloom and is buzzing with activity!

June 1

Our new berry plants!  May 13

July 17, and they're twice as high now!