The Berry Patch Addition

I forgot to include in yesterday's post that I planted my blueberries also last Friday (March 13th), which expands the berry patch to 4 different kinds of berries! When I purchased my blackberry, strawberry, and raspberry plants last year I bought them from a local nursery, and they really did well. This year I thought I would try something new and I bought a couple blueberry plants from Orscheln's Farm and Home. The plants were reasonably smaller, but they had some good green buds starting on both plants I purchased, and they were only $5/plant. So I thought what the heck I'll give it a try. I dug my hole for my blueberries, but before I placed my blueberry plants in the hole I filled the hole with cotton burr. Blueberry plants like very rich acidic soil when planted and cotton burr, like I've said in my previous posts, is really good stuff! I filled the hole with cotton burr, transplanted my blueberry bush and covered it with cotton burr and mulch. I do apologize I meant to take a picture at the time of transplanting but I forgot. These pictures are from Sunday night when I returned home from the weekend.

 

As you can, barely, see the buds don't seem to be as green as they were when I planted them. I'm hopeful that they are just stunted due to the transplant, and that I can nurse them back to a healthy state. I will keep you all posted!