April's 'wild weather whiplash' blamed for poor blueberry, strawberry yields
Penn State's berry specialist explains how April's extreme spring weather cut berry crops and what gardeners can expect next year.
If your backyard blueberries and strawberries are yielding an unusually meager crop this year, blame it on the same thing that’s decimated the state’s tree fruit crops — what the Pennsylvania climatology office called this spring’s “wild weather whiplash.”