Strawberry Patch

This morning we ate breakfast and I went to mow the mum patch and around Regina's old house. After I had finished that I drove the tractor back to the hay shed and parked it. Stacey was working in the storage building and Linda had a shovel and was digging around the strawberry patch. It had been over run with stringy grass since last season. She was removing the plants near the edge and pulling the grass out of the roots. We decided to move some of them to a new patch by the house. I took the Mule and hooked the black trailer to it, then started the rototiller and put it on the trailer. I pulled the trailer to the end of our house and unloaded the rototiller. I laid out a rectangle and started the tiller and tilled up the dirt. I was raking the loose grass out of the dirt when Linda brought up a box of plants. She set those in the shade and helped rake the grass out of the dirt. Around noon, I picked up Stacey from the storage building and we headed to Columbia to eat lunch and pick up some bags of a humus and manure mixture. We bought eight bags at Wal-Mart and returned to the farm. I tilled the dirt once more quite a bit deeper than before and raked the last bit of grass out of the patch. Linda and I dumped the bags of humus and manure on the dirt and I tilled it several times to mix the manure with the dirt. I shoveled a place along the edges to lay two rows of pavers that Stacey and Linda were loading in the Mule. They returned with the first load of pavers and we laid those down. They went back for a second load as I finished shoveling the space for the last row of pavers. We had way too much dirt after covering part of the space with pavers, so we shoveled the extra dirt onto the black trailer. I raked the patch smooth and Linda planted 40 strawberry plants in the new patch.
  
She watered the plants while I put the Mule and the tools away. I don't know if we will have any strawberries this year. The extremely cold weather about a week ago has ruined a lot of fruit crops. The strawberry plants have blooms, but the center of the blooms are blackened. Some say that we should pinch the blooms off and the plants might bloom again. Others say, they won't bear fruit. That was one of the reasons we decided to go ahead and move some plants to a new patch.