210 Hi Folks, ae Thanks everyone for singing up and sending checks.Nice to have working capital again,The strawberry meeting is history. Though it was a good informative meeting the speaker was a NPK man@#hemical pusher).He and I got into several arguments Which I eventually held my peace,However I did yawn several times to give the impression I was bored.¥es,we will be planting strawberries but organiceih Last week we recieved a,55 gal. tote of fish emul§ion (your funds at work) at tiMeS we get a whiff of something fishy.The plan is to spray ‘this direc'ly on the seed bed before planting.We also want ‘to do a better job of foliar feeding. In the past we've had issues with spraying.The best time to foliar feed is in the evening and the weather must be just right.The ‘plants can't be wet also it can't be just before a rain.Years ago I started out with a hand pump sprayer -that was't even close to doing the job.After several years of frustrations I advanced to 0 packback sprayer,still f was always behind in spraying.Eventually we purchased a real humdinger of a sprayer-with a 4 hp motor,a 15 gal. tank, 25 ft. hose,what??hat"s right I still’ could't keep up.That sprayer was on two wheels though it worked great it was hard to manage one person pulling another running the nozzle.Tt was too slow But now lasty#bought the king of sprayers,or so 1 thought, A motorized backpack sprayer! This dude had some pressure plus T could walk quickly up and down the rows.Sadly,it only held 4gai of liquid it diaint go very far.I spent a lot of time walking to and from the field to refill.Plus the sucker was so heavy when T took it offmy back T would almost fall on my face.Last fall I took my sprayer woes to other farmers for evaluation.They said buy a real. sprayer,duh! One with two big wheels -hitch two horses to it-a 20foot boom-high pressure pump-Shp motor-100gal. tank-2300 dollars.Guess what folks we're getting one(your funds at work)We'll keep you posted.It's late-bedtime.cut Nacht. The Yoders