Here's an overview shot. Notice something to the right?
Well, shopping at the local garden center with my 2nd oldest son usually results in more work later. He's the one who found the deal on the fruit trees. He also found berry bushes. He found them marked down half off. So we came home with 'Bluecrop' and 'Northland' blueberries and 'Navajo Thornless' blackberry bush. You need 2 varieties to cross-pollinate the blueberries, but the blackberries don't. However, I think we'll be adding at least one more blackberry bush.
This time we thought that rather than bring in garden soil, we would rent a tiller and amend the soil. We were actually quite surprised with the how good the soil looked. Because blueberries and blackberries requireacidic soil, we decided we would need to revisit the amendments. We kept the cottonseed meal and greensand and also added peat moss, hummus & manure mix, and some mushroom compost. I will also mulch later with pine straw.
