HOW MANY STRAWBERRIES DID WE PICK THIS YEAR?

[@kellygarnet6329]

Love how you are always striving to improve and learn. If you love your job you will never work a day in your life.

[@crazyalex-qp3no]

My dad has told me that before I love that saying

[@harppoon23]

Not bad my friend. You did pretty good. I just started harvesting.

[@lowellyoder2222]

Double row covers are also an option for extreme frost events, especially if you might not have enough water for overhead.

[@joshh9090]

We doubled our berries this year, but you'd be surprised how much hoops help too

[@mattrenfrow5275]

Great video. Look out for anthracnose build up if not treating soil with continuous cropping, chloropicrin is used in southeast, also maybe dominus

[@norfolk1936]

Your voice is just amazing…..

[@RetiredCanadian]

less talking..more action.cheers

[@andrewmattinglymattingly8309]

Make a vid on lifting plastic I want to see how that works

[@joshh9090]

There isn't much to show. A mulch lifter is just a spade that digs up each side of the plastic and flips the dirt off that held them down. Then you just go back and roll it up by hand .

[@robertgreen4291]

@@joshh9090 I would like to see this, as well. Also what do you do with the plastic and drip tape after you pull it all up?

[@nathanromain8821]

💪🏻 Good video 🇺🇸

[@Digeroo123]

Why don't you grow on your own runners? The pick of my runners have roots filling a quart pot by beginning of September.

[@billc3405]

So you replant each year? Thank you for sharing appreciate how you you share the good and the bad.

[@Bennett5363]

Just clarifying, you sell by the pint, wow? In my area Eastern Canada all strawberries are sold in quart containers and this years picked price was $5.50/qt or (4.40 USD). 1 quart = 2 pints.

[@joshh9090]

We sell in pints, quarts, and by the pound if someone orders ahead. Price will vary depending on availability, but our price is higher than yours. We are somewhere around $6.50-7 a quart

[@kissingbanditt]

Hello, Hope someone may answer my question. I have a few strawberry plants in my back yard. There’s nothing else around them. The strawberries are coming out but the side thats touching the ground is rotting, yet the rest of the strawberry is good. Any ideas? It’s just on soil. Thanks so much!!

[@adrienneheld180]

Need some straw...get berries off the bare dirt. :)

[@kellygarnet6329]

They're called strawberries for a reason. Get some mulch under those plants.

[@kissingbanditt]

@@adrienneheld180 thank you so very much.

[@kissingbanditt]

@@kellygarnet6329 i appreciate it. Thanks.

[@andreanash7646]

Could you sell the plants you’re getting ready to pull up? Maybe u-dig?

[@joshh9090]

I do not believe there are any rules about not being able to, but honestly for the time you'd have to put in to it, it isn't worth it. I understand a lot of things that we do seem like they may be wasteful, but at the end of the day I have to pay someone to go out and do a task and if it isn't profitable it isn't worth it

[@andreanash7646]

@@joshh9090 it wasn’t really a question about waste. It was more a question of possible extra revenue. Since backyard gardeners don’t plant new strawberries every year they may be receptive to go dig up plants for their own strawberry patches. Just a thought

[@1982MCI]

@@andreanash7646 it would not be worth having in your garden Andrea. These are hybrid strawberries and are bred to produce good the first year and then production will fall off considerably the following year and by the third or fourth season, they may not produce at all. These are not like your grandmas heritage variety that would send out runners that will produce new plants each season that you can use and the plants will keep producing strawberries for years. Those are a much smaller berry but they also are much sweeter and flavorful than what these hybrids are and that’s what consumers want is the big pretty red strawberry that is hollow, has very little strawberry flavor and is not as sweet as the heritage berries. I prefer a smaller, juicy, extremely sweet berry but the public demands the bigger one so that’s what we grow as farmers then.

[@andreanash7646]

@@1982MCI thanks, I did not know that.

[@joshh9090]

@@andreanash7646 I understand. Unfortunately its just one of those things. The plants will likely have some disease and the mother plants will not transplant well, so you would have to teach people where and what to take and in the end it is a lot of money just to advertise and take people out there o the field.

[@andydsimmons]

I'd say that's a good job.

[@jimmygibson2261]

Will you plant in the same rolls

[@joshh9090]

If you mean plastic rolls? Then the answer is no.

[@mynameisralfbob2276]

1st year field? Let them go, 2nd year.

[@joshh9090]

On plastic you almost always only grow for a year. Matte row you can get away with 2.

[@mr25Lawliet]

Клубника короткого светового дня может сидеть на одном месте 6 лет, и каждый год её пересаживать максимально глупо, нужно дать кустам расти хотя бы сезона 4. В первый сезон она даст мало урожая, на второй сезон больше.

[@luisdavidmartinezmercado8716]

I'd like to work with you.

[@johnsalcido5436]

Dude forget about those stupid covers 😂 just use a sprinkler system by itself and turn it on every freeze once it blooms around early March and onward. You think I’m gonna sit there and watch my berry blooms freeze on a thin blanket 😂 nah man Freeze that plant up until it’s solid ice and that will protect it more than a overly expensive blanket

[@ErinSlusser]

How many Acres of berries are you ‘freeze’ watering and how many gallons per minute is your Well pumping out. Thanks!

[@johnsalcido5436]

@@ErinSlusser 7 acres of berries. I pump water out of the creek so I’m not sure exactly how many gallons I’m pumping out but it is quite a big amount. I use a 6 cylinder John Deere Diesel water pump for ease of operation. You can also use those PTO water pumps hooked onto a turned on tractor. But depends I guess some farmers use pond water others use a turbine pump to get well water.

[@ГенаКороткий-ь8н]

You speak so quickly that I didn't understand anything

[@heatherj3030]

You can turn down the video play speed. I do that when I'm watching a fast talker sometimes.