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On May 3 we planted 15 acres of new strawberries. By the middle of the second day we had put over 150,000 new plants into the rich Skagit delta soil.
These berries will not be harvested until 2006 and will be harvested for three years thereafter. We planted five different varieties including an old variety named Hood, a personal favorite. The Hood is not an exceptionaly large strawberry but it has a very pleasing mellow, sweet quality to it. A timely rain just a few hours after got the plants off to a good start. |
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The planters feed the crowns into a wheel that rotates downward to embed the plants into the soil. |
| Stepping in the plants that have not sunk in deep enough and also planting by hand any "skips." |
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A well planted strawberry row. |
| The adjacent field of iris at mid day. |  |
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The sky began to thicken in the late afternoon. Note the yellow cabbage field in bloom in the background. |
| View from the field looking east at dusk. Rain imminent. The thin green line at the base of the poplars is our raspberry field. |
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