Mission Blueberry

Hello!
Spring is fast approaching.
Time to get my butt into gear and do something vaguely garden related!

We really needed to get those blueberry bushes in the ground. Not sure if we will be lucky enough to get fruit this season, but they’ve a better chance if we actually planted them

While we were digging, we let the chooks into the garden as a treat!
So funny – they have such a marvellous time when they are allowed somewhere new!

Very industriously digging up everything of course!!

They mostly just got in Jeffs way… so many worms to be snatched up!!

Once Jeff had removed the grass, we dug into the soil to break it up a bit then added in some pine needles that I had leftover from last season.

I decided not to plant yesterday as I wanted to get some pine bark mulch to put in the holes and mulch with once planted…

So we quit the blueberry task and I moved on to digging up the last of the beetroot and weeded the plot.

Handy using my sink even though its not hooked up to the tap yet

Plot is now ready for a new planting of carrots and beetroot!

I spent a little time weeding one of the other raised beds – the mulch has done a great job of keeping the weeds down though

Soon I’ll have to decide where I am planting everything this season!

Lucky worm… chooks didn’t spot this one.

A lovely day!

Today we collected a couple of scoops of cheap pine bark – it didn’t need to be showy so I was ok with paying less!

I lined the holes with it and mulched all around the plot.
Hopefully they will be happy and do blueberry things…

The rest of the mulch went into the beds where the strawberries will go and onto the path in the backyard garden… so now it looks like a path not a weed-fest.

Then, because I was out there, I got into tidying up this area a bit

This,
To this:

and

This,
To this:

Pip was acting resident snoopervisor for a while

I started cutting back the cape gooseberries, but they still have lots of fruit on them.
I picked a bundle today

Anyway, its all an ongoing project of course!
What makes me pleased about this upcoming season is that I have lots of plots almost ready just to plant in rather than having to do any big weedings sessions or building from scratch.  Will just be adding a bit of soil and compost and going for it!
Bliss.

BTW… that huge egg of course was a double yolker…

Cheers!