So I had 2.5 days off Thursday-Monday so I decided it was time to take a trip home to Indy....spend some time out on the farm so to speak. DH had to work so no fun for him, but he and his guys friends are going to Vegas for a 4 day trip (Saturday-Tuesday). We had miles to use, a friend had comped rooms so I said go have fun with the boys.
I have been craving blackberry jelly roll. So I went to the grocery store last week....the cheapest blackberry jam was $5.99/8 oz bottle. I was like whoa! I don't think so. Low and behold I get home and the blackberry bushes we planted 3 yrs ago for $0.99/each now are giving off several cups of fruit a week. My mom and I picked for about an hour we got 9 cups of berries. :) We made a pie and decided to make some jam......so since we had all the ingredients required thought it was a good cheap alternative. :). She works at a greenhouse so I get a discount when I buy plants/flowers there. At the end of the season a few years ago I bought 3 strawberry plants for $0.49. They've expanded like crazy and this year I got 5 gallons of frozen strawberries to take back with me for smoothies. My parents froze about half of them for me. :) I feel special.
My sister and I finally got photos taken for my mom for her belated mother's day gift. We got them done at a photo place that does same day printing-Mom was thrilled.
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I need to plant some blackberries, strawberries and grapes. I wonder if they can be planted in the fall. You stated you bought them at the end of the season, is that when you planted them? Was there anything special you needed to do with planting them then? Is there anything special to do for the strawberry plants for the winter such as mulch them real good? I've never grown either and have no idea how it should be done.
ReplyDeleteLisa-We have all 3 and I started them all in late September (2nd to last or last weekends) a few summers ago. The only thing I did was til the soil, add a bit of donkey manure, then burned it for the ash in the fruit area. We were doing this to the garden anyway so I did those areas just to make sure they had plenty of nutirets. Then planted Sunday. The strawberries I made a bit of a box out of old wood timbers because in the spring the 2 plants I'd started with had tons of offshoots to make 10 different plants. For the grapes and blackberries we made posts for them to climb so that it was ready in the spring. No mulch on any of them. In the spring checked blackberries and grape plants once a week to help guide the plant to near the posts so the plants wouldn't lean over. The first summer we didn't get much fruit but we got tons the 2nd summer.
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