14 GEORGE RENNIE FARM, ANDOVER, MASS. 
PLANTING DEPTH 
Too Deep Too High Just Right 
HOW WE PREPARE OUR LAND FOR 
STRAWBERRIES 
We plant one quarter of our land to strawberry 
plants every year. Every fall the land that is not 
in strawberries is planted to Winter Rye. This is 
plowed under in the Spring, about the middle of 
June. Then we plant buckwheat and this is plowed 
under when it starts to form seed. This keeps the 
land well filled with humus and holds the moisture. 
When a dry time comes the plants never show it. 
We fertilize with hen manure mostly and stable 
manure when we can get it. This is plowed under 
in the Fall. The land’is plowed again in the Spring, 
then harrowed until it is nice and mellow and ready 
for planting. We always try to get our plants set 
out as early in the season as possible. About two 
weeks after planting we use a 5-10-5 fertilizer to 
start the plants, a handful to every five or six 
plants, then hoe it in. 
