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| President Roosevelt Rhodie |
Our work continues. We stopped at Sunny Farms Nursery to buy blueberry plants. The nursery worker tried unsuccessfully to discourage us from growing blueberries, then gave explicit planting instructions for best chance to succeed. This included lots of peat moss and acid food, mounding the plants, mulching, watering heavily then not at all and finally, using a drip system for further watering. We spent a small fortune to buy mature plants so we can harvest berries this year. We got two early varieties and two mid-late varieties. We also planted two small red currants. There is plenty of room for more blueberries next year if these work out well. We bought the components for the drip system too, and will install it this week. I hope we'll be able to sit down and enjoy all this stuff someday.
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| Blueberries |
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| Veggie and strawberry beds |
Bob is getting creative with the fence. He's weaving old raspberry canes into the fence material to create a bit of a windbreak. I want to grow a big rambling rose along it for something pretty.
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| Cane fence start |
Here is a long shot of the garden. It's composed of the greenhouse, the fruit area (raspberries and strawberries in addition to the blueberries and currants) and the veggie area, all using water from the irrigation ditch or the well. We're hoping the water doesn't run out this summer because of the drought.
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| The garden |
