March 15, 2010

    69 degrees and only partly cloudy today so I'm going to finally finish turf removal in the front vegetable garden.  The weather this last winter here has permitted me to not only work in the gardens as late as December 5, 2009, but to also resume my work this spring about February 15th.
    Two more blueberries went in yesterday, 'Earliblue' and 'Darrow.'  I've got ten of them now in two rows 6 feet apart:  last week, three plants went in (‘Patriot,’ ‘Rubel,’ and ‘Chandler’), in addition to the three planted last fall (‘Elliot,’ ‘Blue Crop,’ and ‘Blue Gold’), and the two mystery blueberries that came with the property (probably ‘Duke’).  I chose cultivars based on bloom/harvest times, and with a mix of early, mid, mid-late, and late varieties, hopefully in a few years I will be harvesting blueberries from June through September.