Strawberry Plants Galore!

On Tuesday, I went through our original strawberry bed at our home and pulled out the runners and extra plants. The TRISTAR, TRIBUTE and OZARK strawberries have been growing in our home garden for a few years and needed thinning desperately. I brought the home garden back to 3 single rows and took the plants I removed to the farm to start a new strawberry bed. It rained for the next two days, so I ended up creating two new beds on Thursday and had the children plant the new plants. Wow, was I shocked when we counted 421 strawberry plants in the ground. Can you believe that wasn't all ... we still had plants left to plant. Today, we weeded the original strawberry bed at the farm and pulled out plants that were in the walking path. We took those plants, plus the ones left over, and created another new bed (2 rows) and filled the remaining two pipes we use for a strawberry tower. I haven't counted, but we probably planted around 110 plants today. A quick estimate would bring us to around 1550 strawberry plants in the ground at the farm! Our strawberry plants are greening up nice and some have flowers already. The onions are up and coming along nicely. And as if I didn't have enough to do, I also planted a 20 foot row of hollyhocks.
Today, I also set up the pepper hut (greenhouse cover over plastic hoops) with 8 little peppers to see how they make it outdoors. Just for fun I planted 4 leggy tomato plants in cages outside.
Even the blueberries got their share of attention. I mulched with peatmoss covered with dried field grass with cedar mulch on top. Once the weather stays consistant, we should see great growth out of all the berries.
Yikes, the weatherman is saying we may get a FROST tomorrow night! Arrggh! It looks as if next week will be cool too.
They say that if you don't like the weather here in the U.P., just wait 10 minutes and it'll change.