covering strawberries

Arborist Forum

Help Support Arborist Forum:

This site may earn a commission from merchant affiliate links, including eBay, Amazon, and others.

066blaster

Addicted to ArboristSite
Joined
Dec 10, 2012
Messages
2,172
Reaction score
1,780
Location
West Bend, WI
Just finishing covering today. We had most of them done, but then we got a lot of rain and then snow. We had to wait until the ground was froze enough that it wasn't muddy. We use about 800 bales.
20141126_112304.jpg
20141126_114459.jpg
 
That is a chopper on the back. You just feed the bales in it. I know they make bigger ones that blow it over the whole field. But they take more straw. You only need it over the row of plants. 1 bale goes about 35 feet. We still do the rows with the irrigation pipes by hand. We grow are own winter rye for the straw. We cut it just as it it heading out so the seed doesn't mature, otherwise we get a lot of volunteer coming up in spring. Wheat straw is the worst for that. Plus the winter rye gets about 6-7 foot tall and produces alot of straw. I have to bale in low gear and the bales come out 1 right after another.
 
Back
Top