Cleaning up the Beds

The strawberry beds, that is. The biggest bed is 32 rows wide. It takes approximately an hour per row to weed. Whew! Yesterday was a p-e-r-f-e-c-t day for weeding...overcast with sun peeks now and again and a slight breeze just enough to blow the biting critters away for the most part. There are now 13 rows totally weeded and 11 rows totally mulched. We have more rows to hoe, ey?

There is something to be said about those vertical strawberry poles...no weeding! However, it shall be interesting to see how we can overwinter them. Yes, I know. Winter. Have to constantly be thinking about that when you live in snow country. We do have an ideer or two for overwintering those poles. Time shall tell.

I didn't get any more of the baby lilac row weeded but I did get more mowing done.

This year is definitely slower than we've been experiencing in the past few years. Just heard that our friends (aren't most Yoopers friends?) down in Trenary expect their strawberries to be ready around July 4th.