Richard & Sylvia's RV Adventures

Day 6 - Wednesday, March 7, 2007

Strawberry Festival Day….

The Florida Strawberry Festival is held at this time each year in Plant City, FL.  It’s a really big deal down here; so big that the map we have had a plot and a label for the festival grounds; the kids get out of school that week and everybody who is anybody is at the festival.  They have big entertainers every day; the day we visited Little Richard was playing at 4pm and Kenny Rogers was on at 7pm.  We did not stay for either of them since we really were interested in the strawberry shortcake being served….

and as you see here we had our share. We also found the displays and exhibits about the growing of strawberries down here in Florida interesting.

Old Tyme Strawberry Production vs Production Today….  The tractors and equipment were displayed such that you could see the various stages of field preparation…. All done pretty mechanical and automated.

The rows were made using this plow.  If you could see the ground in front of this tractor you’d see that it was basically flat.  After plowing over the flat ground with this plow you would have “perfect” strawberry rows ready for the next step.

 Using this attachment, the rows are covered with “plastic mulch”

 Then using this attachment, perfect holes are punched in the plastic mulch ready for a strawberry plant to be inserted.

The result is the perfect Florida strawberry field.   Probably more than you ever wanted to know about strawberries……  We bought half a flat for $6.75; ate some this evening they were great……

posted by Richard @ 8:46 AM