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Farm Happenings at Strawberry Hill Farm
New Potatoes and Blackberries
Lettuce may be done for a while, but we have some new items for the farm stand this week. Ron has been digging potatoes, and we have four varieties available right now. German Butterball has deep yellow flesh and is good for baking or mashing. Carola, a smaller potato, also has yellow flesh, with a1 read more »
Drowned Garden Plants
Relentless rain the past few weeks (with almost an inch of rain many days) has been hard on our crops. Lettuce and root crops have suffered most, but others are showing damage, too. We even almost lost some kale plants! And kale has been our most reliable producer over the years, in both wet and dr1 read more »
Rain, Rain, Go Away!
We’ve been having too many rainy days recently and not enough sun. The lettuce and zucchini seem to like it (Ron says our zucchini plants are the biggest we’ve ever had!), but it’s been hard on some of our other crops. Most of our garden soil has a lot of clay in it, so it t1 read more »
Blueberries and Lettuce
It’s sweet blueberry season at the farm, and we have plenty of blueberries at our online farm stand this week. Romaine lettuce and salad mix are abundant right now, too, but probably won’t be for long. We’ve reached those hot days of summer when new rows of salad mix have trouble1 read more »