More Gardening
… and seems I’m pushing the season to work comfortably outdoors, since tomorrow it’s not even supposed to hit 70! And the forecast wind is going to be a bit high to do my (hopefully) final weed-spraying of the year, but Friday looks promising so far — also warmer!
At any rate, it was nice enough today that after we got done running errands and doing a bit of shopping, I changed into my grungies and headed for the garden. First step was measuring and marking where I want to put the rest of my blueberry bushes before I started moving the blackberries into the perennial area. I haven’t always done that, estimating instead, and that’s got a bad habit of not working out well.
I started out with one row, holes for four canes, since I wasn’t sure I could find more nice upright ones than that, the way these blackberries were sprawling, but I ended up with 2 rows (8 canes), so even if I lose some, that should be enough to give me a decent blackberry patch again in a couple of years.
Even with pulling that many canes, I was surprised at how much was left out front. And given how difficult it was to get some of the transplant canes out of the ground, I’m going to need to talk to Carl about how to get the rest out. I have a feeling it’s going to end up with him pulling them with his tractor — which would probably make his day; he does love using it! I’ll probably ask about it tomorrow, since I’m planning to go over tomorrow anyway to show Audrey the first tunic before I start into #2, and maybe chat about the Senior Center’s craft show/sale in November and how much of what of my tatting they might want as donations.
