The Plan

The garden veggies and fruits are growing well. And they have been shamefully neglected with all the mowing, housework and web projects. Little cucumber, watermelon, cantaloupe and squash are coming along. Won’t be too much longer now. Had my first ripe cherry tomato the other day. Tasted like candy it’s so sweet. And no tomato worms yet. But the season isn’t over yet either.

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When we were thinking of all the plans we might have for living out in the country, self-sustaining, gardening, etc, one of the givens was we would be growing fruit. And lots of it. Our first year, we ordered and planted over a dozen bare-root fruit trees and most of those did survive the winter. But they are still so small. No fruit set this year. I blame it on the apparent lack of bee activity, but they are young and shouldn’t be fruiting yet anyway.

We also moved strawberries, planted a large amount of raspberries, and about five blueberry bushes. Oh, and the grapes too. So, we were doing pretty well, but not good enough. 

I counted up the remaining space in our existing blueberry row and estimated how many fruit trees it would take to fill our killed-sod solarized spot. Then I gave Anne her dream mission: go and find six or seven blueberry bushes and about seven fruit trees. It didn’t take too long for the plants to be found and now they need planting. Where is the shovel?