It is Monday morning and Randy is picking strawberries for the farmstand. He may pick strawberries  today and then not tomorrow. We will see how many ripen as the day goes by. The everbearing/day neutral strawberries are very sweet and the quantity will increase throughout July. The bed looks healthy and we expect to be picking into October on them.

We opened Sunday July 4th at 7am with very good picking on our new Killarney raspberry bed. We did not have a large crowd at all and have excellent picking conditions in both beds today July 5th.  If you can not arrive until after 12 noon, please call first as we will shut down the bed for ripening if needed. I don't think that will happen as the 90 degree temps will ripen the berries quickly.  We expect to have wonderful picking all week and next week too.

The upper bed  has three varieties ready which include Killarney, Boyne and Revielle. The Latham are beginning and soon the Taylor will ripen.  The yellow raspberries have root rot and did not overwinter in good shape. There is very few yellows for picking this year.

At the farmstand we will have fresh picked raspberries, strawberries, sugar snack peas, swiss chard, lettuce, the first of our garlic, sunflower bouquets, maple syrup and hand made soap. We still have Lisianthus and Zinnias in 6 paks and 4" pots of Rubeckia "goldilocks".