Rainy Days

Finally, some rain! Charley and I did some work in the greenhouse this morning, and as you can see, he loved every minute of it. I pulled the row cover off of the strawberries today to check the damage. Unfortunately, many of the flowers and berries have been destroyed by these past few nights of hard freeze. While this diminishes our early harvest, I still have hope for a later crop if the weather doesn't get too hot too fast. Most of the plants that spent the past few days and nights under row covers are still kickin', although they are a little crispy around the edges. The plants that were not under row covers, however, are looking mortally wounded. Fortunately, I use lots of row cover! What remains to be seen, though, is the effect the ups and downs in temperature will have on the plants in the coming weeks. They may bolt to seed because of the stress...We'd better eat fast!