Source: Chris Bickers, SOUTHEAST FARM PRESS, 6/24/11

It is no mystery why row covers are replacing overhead irrigation for spring frost protection of strawberries.

There are several reasons. Barclay Poling, recently retired North Carolina State University Extension horticulture specialist, says, one of the most convincing he ever heard came from a grower near Raleigh, N.C.

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