We’ve been working very hard to reconstruct our tunnels after the storm damage 10 days ago. It has stayed very windy since then, and last Sunday was also stormy, so we have concentrated so far on rebuilding the steel structures. However, the weather has now calmed down, and we have covered our first tunnels since the storm, as you can see in the photograph. Some of the hoops will not be ...
We have suffered great damage this week, when many of our polytunnels were destroyed in a violent storm on Monday. We had nearly 50 hectares of tunnels erected on Monday morning, but winds of up to 160km/h left only 1 ha unaffected by Monday night. However we still expect our harvest to be on schedule, and with the help of the many people who have already arrived on the farm, we are dismantling al...
In the last 2 weeks we have had dry sunny weather, so all the crops have moved forward rapidly. Most strawberry fields are now covered with flowers, an even in the raspberries, flowers have now opened. This means we can now be sure that this season will be much earlier than last year, and there will be lots of fruit to pick from early June. The earliest raspberries will not be far behind, with som...
This week, over 30 new people joined our staff. They arrived through the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Scheme and their places on the farm were arranged by Concordia. They came from Bulgaria and Romania. They started work immediately, helping to keep our strawberry fields weed free, then some moved on to removing flowers from young strawberry plants to let them grow stronger before developing frui...
This week the flowers started opening on our Elsanta and Sonata strawberries. This means we can expect to start picking at the end of May as planned, as long as the weather remains good. We have good weather so far this Spring, but not as hot as in England where they will have a very early start to the season, which is good for us as they should have less fruit to crowd the market in late june whe...