Blackberries, Strawberries, Grapes
Yesterday I planted blackberries and strawberries and started putting up the arbor for the grapes. For the blackberries, I dug holes with the post hole diggers and filled them up with water. I don’t have any good compost yet so I had to uses store-bought cow manure to fill the holes before planting the blackberries. I had prepared the ground by tilling in rock phosphate and a little compost. These are blackberries that I dug up from pretty much the same place.
The strawberries were real easy. I separated the crowns and placed them equidistant in the bed. The ground was so soft that I just opened the whole with the trowel and set the strawberries in the hole and filled it. Strawberries and blackberries both need to be planted with the crown exactly the same level with the ground as they were before they were dug.
The grape arbor is not really a grape arbor. It is a fence. I am using some old fence post from a rail fence. The fence will be about 5’ high and the posts will be 8’ apart. There will be wire to hold the grapevines. The top 2’ will be of lattice for now to provide screening from the neighbors. As the vines grow I will be able to take the lattice down and let more light on the grapes.
David Segrest is an International REALTOR in Charlotte, NC. His email is david@segrestrealty.com , His webpage is http://www.segrestrealty.com , and his international real estate blog is http://dointernationalrealestate.blogspot.com/.
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Thursday, December 13, 2007
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
Blackberries
Blackberries
I did nothing in the Garden yesterday, nor will I today; because I am in Brunswick County, NC teaching a real estate class. One thing I started last week was redoing an old blackberry bed. The blackberry bed is a remnant of a time when the house backed up to woods. I had never done anything with the area because it was behind the fence in the yard and I just did not bother.
When a subdivision was built, one of the people who owned a house behind us planted a lot of really nice azaleas on my property thinking it was his property. I thanked him profusely and asked him if he minded if I moved a couple of them around to the front. He got a survey and put up a fence. That added about 8 feet to my yard. I started taking the fence down to expand my garden. That is when I go to thinking about the blackberries. The raised bed I wrote about Sunday is in that area. There was still about a 30 foot area of blackberries. They don’t produce much because they have been neglected.
I dug up 10 nice blackberry plants and put them in pots. Then I ran the tiller through the area. Next I will really work on getting the soil in shape and replant the blackberry plants. It will probably take a couple of years before they actually produce anything.
David Segrest practices international real estate and writes an international real estate blog. Email is david@segrestrealty.com , Web page http://www.segrestrealty.com ,Blog http://dointernationalrealestate.blogspot.com/
I did nothing in the Garden yesterday, nor will I today; because I am in Brunswick County, NC teaching a real estate class. One thing I started last week was redoing an old blackberry bed. The blackberry bed is a remnant of a time when the house backed up to woods. I had never done anything with the area because it was behind the fence in the yard and I just did not bother.
When a subdivision was built, one of the people who owned a house behind us planted a lot of really nice azaleas on my property thinking it was his property. I thanked him profusely and asked him if he minded if I moved a couple of them around to the front. He got a survey and put up a fence. That added about 8 feet to my yard. I started taking the fence down to expand my garden. That is when I go to thinking about the blackberries. The raised bed I wrote about Sunday is in that area. There was still about a 30 foot area of blackberries. They don’t produce much because they have been neglected.
I dug up 10 nice blackberry plants and put them in pots. Then I ran the tiller through the area. Next I will really work on getting the soil in shape and replant the blackberry plants. It will probably take a couple of years before they actually produce anything.
David Segrest practices international real estate and writes an international real estate blog. Email is david@segrestrealty.com , Web page http://www.segrestrealty.com ,Blog http://dointernationalrealestate.blogspot.com/
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