They Survived!

Last Night I was outside choring my chickens and doing my usual walk around the 1/2 acre farm, and I noticed that my blackberry and raspberry bushes had their first sign of green leaves! This is very exciting to me because I planted them last year and really put a lot of work and effort into nurturing these plants through the summer, and I was afraid that they may not survive the winter. However, apparently they did survive the winter, and we should have blackberries and raspberries this year!!!

Blackberries

 

Raspberries

(Sorry the picture quality is bad, the camera didn't want to focus on the green buds)

 

On a sad note though when I got home last night one of my healthy little tomato plants didn't make it through the day. I think I had left my grow lights on too long and it got too hot in my green house and killed it. Also a blueberry bush (not the one Duke dug up) seemed to have snapped in half as well. I'm not sure what to think about these blueberry bushes at this point, every time I think they seem to be looking better....they take a turn for the worse. I may be going to a nursery within the next month or so and buying two new bushes.