Handley speaks to media about strawberry crop
The Portland Press Herald and WMTW-TV (Channel 8 in Portland) interviewed David Handley, vegetable and small fruit specialist at University of Maine Cooperative Extension, about the impact of late May frost on Maine’s strawberry harvest this year. Handley said he expected a later start to the season than usual for many Maine strawberry growers, particularly those in the central part of the state. “But if we get good weather for picking, I think we’re looking at a really good season. We just can’t seem to string more than a couple of sunny days together. We need some sunny days to ripen the fruit and get the pickers out in the fields,” Handley told the PPH.