HT here are my thoughts. You started your plants too early indoors and they got too big maybe. They can only grow so much in small pack containers.  I have ran into that  a few times. I started mine 2 weeks ago and with the weather may be too early I have started berry bushes in 5 gallon buckets for a summer and transplanted them in the fall with good luck. As long as the strawberries are a LITTLE damp kept cool they should remain dormant.

Clint I'm sure your right. Mine been in soil for almost 2 months. Some did good early and some couldn't sustain.
If they had more space and light , I think it would work.
Got off my butt and bucked up those poplar.
Days are getting longer, temps only need a bump, not a heatwave.

I've always bought my plants locally, not so much home centers. They grow from seed. Only difference I can see is they have an established green, grow house.
I'm learning

THE ROCK IS OUT. I had to resort to putting the ho on the tractor and that made short wok of it.  I made 2 pig troughs today and will get (sausage) Link later today.

That's strange Clint. It seems they are everywhere cheap here right now. I know of a few more to be had for 60 and less but I'm all good myself. Next year I probably can't buy 1 .
Kicked butt today here. Visited my local dirt farmer and filled those crates, after I visited my local rock quarry to line the bottoms first.
All berries are planted, the cold frame box is in test on veggies tonight. Do or they don't.
Got the boat serviced and running.
Major score on 2 huge red oak trees I was told I could have. Tomorrow's project is to put them on the ground.
After all that , wife took me out to the oldest running restaurant in our county. They always have fresh local catch on special. Of course it's shad roe, I'm sure next week will be striped bass and so on.
A good days work . Glad you got that Rock out . I wish I had a tractor 😀

Hey you got a freezer full and another on the way. Thanks for the numbers. I will try and keep track as i go. I can see a savings on me slaughtering. I also see a loss when my son raids my freezer every week, lol.
Right now I'm $100. For 2 piglets. $50. To build the stall. $20 for 100 lbs feed $10 for 2 bales straw. Free fencing I had.
Still want to build the cold smokehouse but I have lots of time on that.
Looking at bacon, steaks , sausage, roasts, ribs and loins.
I liked your weight to meat ratio

The butchering is the biggest cost and something I cannot do as I have little to no knowledge of it. Remember try will eat grass and garden weeds too. We let this one get a bit bigger than the others.

Today was a work day for sure. Nothing went as I'd like of course. Glad yours was better Clint with a new toy. Not much of a gun collection myself either. 22 rifle, 20 & 12 gauge shotgun, 30-06 game gun. I don't shoot other than hunting so they serve purpose.

Here is my rundown day.
Figured I'd drop that free oak then do brakes on daughters car. As my great luck has, it hung up in another tree. Started at 9am and a backhoe later it was on the ground at noon. Brakes took an hr from 1 -2 pm.
Pigs and garden projects took 2 more hrs , boat took another 2 . Figured I'd go cut and haul some firewood after and blow a tire on cart after first load. Chunked a bunch of tree up and now it's almost dark and I'm toast !!

That is one gentile dog to sit there with those chicks,that is a joy to see!

Thank you, hard to go wrong with those subjects.
Mindy is an English Shepherd, sometimes also called an 'Old Fashioned farm collie'... They are an all around farm dog known for herding, protection and varmit hunting. 
They are an incredibly intelligent dog and she has those qualities and then some. She loves her chickens and is a joy to watch in the coops, especially when chicks hatch. Her and Dillon (Male ES from same NY sheep farm) make sure no racoons, rats or possums ever visit twice. Mindy has twice saved birds from hawk attacks also. I think as long as we ever have poultry or any farm animals around we will have an ES to help out. 

Clint S
Got the coop cleaned and spread on the small gardens. Dug some stones from the lawn and cleared some birch that were down from the wind. Back hurts so taking it easy. I have to spray and plow the garden soon. We are expanding one so I spray it to kill the grass before plowing. It will be a pumpkin patch.
 

You are making me tired! LOL
We have 2 coops, this weekend they are getting cleaned out completely, sprayed for any bugs, which thankfully we haven't seen sign, but still do preventative treatment yearly, and new sand put in. Camping season is starting so time to have them finished before we are gone on weekends. 
 

Fence  is up, cows are out and one garden plowed. Helped the neighbor deliver a calf too

We started raised beds this year and so far they are doing great.

Where to start.
3 weeks behind from fishing. Finally got most all my garden sowed. Still to plant peppers and more herbs.
Gave a second mowing on lawn this season and it's thick. Took a few piles to the pigs and they love it.
The firewood pile is growing but I don't think it's enough yet which sucks because the woods are also getting thick.

As far as starting my plants inside, it was a pretty much bust. I wouldn't do it again without a greenhouse.
Only thing that really produced were tomatoes. Currently I have 30 tomato plants in the ground. All the rest, cukes ect didn't germinate until I put them outside 2 weeks ago.

Pigs are getting big. While I was away playing with fish , I'm thinking my wife was over feeding them. I cut them back this week to about 2lbs feed per day each.

More to come

Agreed Clint. I started things in late January. Far to soon but thought maybe it would increase my yield by a early planting as plants instead of buying plants.
I'm truly going to build a greenhouse and possibly start things in March instead.

Talk about mud, it's still mud season and the pigs are deep in it. Getting ripe in there .They are eating a lot as well. I'm going to start keeping track of their cost on food. So far I'm 250 lbs into feed @ $9.00 per 50 lbs.
Gotta make another feed run tomorrow.
Think I killed my peach trees. My mother bought some mulch to put around them. 2 days later I noticed the leaves wilting. 4 days later they were dropping.
I looked at the bags of much and the crap had weed killer added.
Tired to rake as much off as I could but they now look very sad.
By the end of this week all my garden will be as will be.

I'm heading away again next weekend to my deer camp to hang out for 3 nights. After that , I'm home for 2 weeks then the ausable for father's day weekend, following week long in Rhode island clamming for 7 days.
The wheel never stops here.