Strawberries are Planted!

Last weekend we were able to get all our strawberries transplanted into the ground. Yay!

Why rejoice? For several reasons.

We had the strawberries potted up into cell trays, sitting in between the strawberry rows in the high tunnel. That means we had to water them once or twice a day, depending on how hot it got! It means we had no room to walk between the strawberry rows.

It also means that when a vole or mole started tunneling under the plant trays, and started eating the strawberry plants, we had not recourse!

So, after the trays were out of the tunnel and on their way to being planted, one of the voles/moles was eradicated (we'll spare the gory details). Not sure how many more there are, but hopefully not many!

The strawberries are looking good in the field. Now if we can just keep the deer and other wild creatures from finding them...