Welcome to Bourne Valley
Pick Your Own

What’s happening on the farm right now?

We are planting strawberries at this time - and we are already opening up for strawberries! The strawberries are in raised beds set at waist height reducing the need for bending and making maintenance easier. A high-quality compost mix is essential for healthy development. Plants arrive frozen preserving their viability. These are often bare-root plants meaning they come without soil around the roots.

The frozen plants are slowly thawed at cool temperatures to prevent shock. The roots are rehydrated before planting in troughs about 25 centimetres apart. Sometimes we use coir to bed the plants and sometimes we use mulch to cover them. The joy of table tops is the absence of pests and the ease of working with them and of course, small people can pick!