A busy April thus far

A busy busy spring we have had the last few weeks. For starters we have really made the big push to get the raised beds finished. I knew we had the fruit plants coming around April 10, so we had to act fast. The fruit plants list is as follows:

2 Himrod Seedless Grapes
2 Bluegold Blueberry's
1 bundle (25 plants) Earliglow Strawberry (June bearing)
1 bundle (25 plants) Tristar Strawberry (ever bearing)
10 Tulameen Raspberry's

Now for the blueberries we purchased a used 50 gallon plastic container and cut it in half drilled some drainage holes in it and gave it a good cleaning. I decided to go with white because I didn't want the blueberries roots to get too hot in our arid summers.





Everything else needed to get into the ground. Franticly we built raised beds, got compost, and eventually planted the strawberries and the raspberries. The grapes however needed to wait, we were building an arbor for them and the construction was going great, but the fruit got shipped sooner than we had anticipated. Jacob is working on a how-to-build an arbor that I will let him post about.

Much of the last 3 weeks has been outside prep work, getting fruit into the ground before it starts to grow. Now this year I will trim all of the flowers from the fruit. I have already done so with the blueberries. Every site I have found says if you let the fruit plants concern itself with growing it's first year, your following harvests will be more plentiful. I think because the first year the plant spends all it's time growing roots and strength instead of fruit. It will be really difficult to wait another year for any fruit harvest, but I am told it is worth it.