Market Farming

[Marie Kamphefner <kampy AT grm.net>]

Hi Jacqueline,

It is pushing it to plant strawberries now, but I have done it before.  If 
it doesn't rain, we water them deeply once a week.  We have a big water 
tank spray boom thing that goes behind the tractor. We take it to the pond 
and pump it full of water, then go along and spray the plants.  Wish I had 
drip irrigation.

It is better to plant early spring, but our ground always seems to be so 
wet then.  Fall plantings just haven't worked well for us.  They have taken 
1 1/2 years to do anything and are more susceptible to winter kill and deer 
damage so just might as well wait and plant in the spring - or summer, this 
year!

It gets really hot here - and humid.  90-100 and sometimes hotter.

We have 25 goslings ready to be turned into the strawberry patch.  They 
won't eat the strawberry plants.  I hope this works so I don't have to weed 
the plants so much.

Marie in Missouri