Season Starter!

The earliest bearing strawberries have the straw removed.

Welcome to Sunlight

This is a view of freshly uncovered berry plants. A couple of days of exposure to fresh air and sunshine will make a huge difference.

Berry Blossoms

The early plants are blanketed with blossoms and a few baby berries.

Berries Formed

After the blossoms turn into baby berries, the berries slowly get larger and begin to change color into the gorgeous red we are all used to.

Fresh Strawberries

When picked the berries should look as delicious as these do.

Decisions, Decisions!

It takes a lot of planning to prune correctly. The idea is to encourage new growth which will produce more berries.

Blossoming

Soon after pruning the leaves emerge from the plants and we begin to get a gorgeous, well tamed, blueberry field

Baby Berries

After a period of blossoming, baby blueberries, like these, form. In about a month the berries will be large, juicy and blue.

Raspberry Pruning and Trellising

Our new pruning and trellising system has made the fields a lot more beautiful, easier to manage and much easier to pick. In 2008, the first year of the new system, we had a bumper crop and we have high hopes for this year as well.

Blossoms

Just like Strawberries, the raspberries blossom first before turning into baby berries. If you look closely here, you can even see a bee at work on one of these blossoms.

Corn

In early June the corn is about ankle high, in the next few months it will grow a few feet and we'll have gorgeous ears of corn sometime in August.

Transplanting Vegetables

For the most part, the other veggies we grow are started from seed inside. Later they are transplanted to bigger containers and left outside for about a week to let them get used to the ever changing weather they are soon to experience. These plants are just about ready to make the big move into the garden.

Onions and Shallots

This year will be our first with onions and shallots. We've planted them on plastic to try and control the weeds around them, and they appear to be growing very nicely.

Beans

Once again we will offer three different types of beans: green, yellow and purple. Those pictured above are purple beans, as you can see by the gorgeous purple stems, they will later have beautiful purple blossoms.

Rhubarb

We planted a few rhubarb plants this year. Next year we hope to get our first harvest off of them.

Lettuce

We've planted a number of different types of lettuce this year and they seem to be growing quite well! This is a red and green bibb mix.

Peas

We offer U-pick and We-pick peas and this year the plants look gorgeous. On 6/9 we found our first blossom, so look for peas in the coming weeks.

Tomatoes

These tomatoes have been recently transplanted outside and are nicely acclimating to their new conditions.

Potatoes

These potatoes are just starting to produce blossoms. They will soon be hilled to prevent sunlight from reaching the potato. By the end of June we should start digging our first row!

Pumpkins

These pumpkin plants will soon be sprawling across the field. Hopefully we will get some extra-large pumpkins off of these this year!