Sunday, 8/3 - CLOSED but..... OPEN Monday 8/4 instead

Hi gang,

All my help has ditched me :-) LOLOLOL Annie is away for a month and the girls are wrapping up last minute college and before school stuff. Since little ole me will be at the fair with my kids and their 4-H/FFA projects on Sunday, there’s no one to mind the store! Sunday is the big awards day, gather and move out, haul 2 loads of cows, 1 trailer and a tired kid home, etc.

We’ll be open on Monday instead. Remember ….. don’t come to the stand on Sunday 8/3, come on MONDAY :-) The berries are still trickling in so it looks like I’ll stick to this schedule next week:

Mon 8/4 OPEN

Wed 8/6 OPEN

Fri 8/8 OPEN

Sun 8/10 OPEN

If the harvest quantity comes up over this next week we’ll add Monday back in as a sale day the following week.

Do you know I have about 1 month until TRANSPLANTING AGAIN!!! We have about 7 harvest weeks left. I can’t believe how the year flew by. We’ll pick up 47 thousand plants around Labor Day and spend 10 days getting them tucked in the ground. It’s very time consuming (10 – 12 hours a day) and demanding. These plants come to us frozen in boxes. They have a very limited shelf life and must be transplanted immediately. After the plants are in, we make sure they have the correct amount of moisture and fertilizer for optimum growth, lay straw between the rows for mulch, pull weeds around each plant by hand, pluck off every single runner and blossom until the plants go dormant, release beneficial insects AND pull up all of the old plants/plastic and plant a cover crop. Whew!!!

Then…. we rest

Cheers!

Sally Strawberry
Carstensen Farms