Protecting the strawberries

We've been drooling over the last two weeks over the incredible amount of blossoms on our strawberry plants and with below freezing temperatures predicted we have to protect those tender babies! Insulating blankets and crossed fingers, we'll just wait and see.......

Cauliflower Update

Success with the Styrofoam cups! Take a look at the picture and notice the row on the right was one of the rows covered (cauliflower from prior video) and the one on the left is broccoli that we didn't cover.

Our first attempt at protecting Round #1 of transplants failed (see the Remay blankets frozen stiff in between the rows). After the wire tunnels collapsed we made a second attempt late Monday afternoon to cover as many babies as we could (1,000) with Styrofoam cups .... mostly cauliflower and a few broccoli (do you hear the sleet in the video?). As our son put it, "Mommy, I really hope people like cauliflower because this is a lot of hard work!" He's learning early the true meaning of labor of love!