Berries: Making Low Labor Perennial Strawberry Production A Reality

摘要

AVERY wise person once said, "Necessity is the mother of invention." I often wonder if we do not have enough necessity in these times or have lost our sense of creativity to help solve problems. In our case, growing strawberries at our age, using theconventional wisdom of traditional, established matted row methods had become just too much hard work for us. Also, after several years of trying, we found that our climate is just too cold at this elevation for profitable annual plasticulture strawberryproduction, much as we liked the system that works so well south and east of us in warmer areas. So, 10 years ago we swore off strawberry growing, but our farmers market vendors who pick here have had no other source of locally produced strawberries for their customers.