sticks in the ground!
Today was great for garden progress! The order from Raintree came in on Friday, so today was when I caught up to that.
As a lead-in, I planted strawberries (actually on Friday), and the second blueberry bush (the little one is Chippewa, planted on Saturday morning, and the larger one is Northcountry, planted with photos last week). AND I have multiple tulips blooming this weekend (great progress on behalf of those abused bulbs!).
This morning I unpacked my bare-root plants from the nursery - Golden Sentinel and Scarlet Sentinel columnar apple trees; Hinomaki Yellow, Poorman, and Black Velvet gooseberries. Also two little potted wintergreens and a lingonberry. I remember waffling about those, and I wish I'd gotten two lingonberries and a wintergreen instead of the other way around, but it's not really important. The other bare-root order had already come in from St. Lawrence Nurseries - two Carmine Jewel bush cherries, a Fergie juneberry, and some Boyne raspberries. I had hoped for fall-bearing raspberries, but they must've run out, and did a substitution. Those I tucked under some dirt in the back bed, and they waited for me to get the dirt in the right place and be ready to move them to their final locations. Today was the day to move these.
So, here's the juneberry and two apples planted in the front bed, along with the still-healthy plants from last weekend's work. You can't see the juneberry at all really - it's about a foot-tall trio of thin whip-like sticks. The other thing I planted today was sunflowers - years later in the lifecycle, that juneberry will be large and filling up most of the available space, but for now it's tiny, so I thought a backdrop of sunflowers would temporarily cover the lack of non-baby bushes.
Then, that left two cherries and three gooseberries to be planted in back, along with the 4 raspberries in the corner since last week.
Of course, nothing really has much i the way of leaves right now, but there are enough buds to prove to me that things are genuinely alive!
As a lead-in, I planted strawberries (actually on Friday), and the second blueberry bush (the little one is Chippewa, planted on Saturday morning, and the larger one is Northcountry, planted with photos last week). AND I have multiple tulips blooming this weekend (great progress on behalf of those abused bulbs!).
This morning I unpacked my bare-root plants from the nursery - Golden Sentinel and Scarlet Sentinel columnar apple trees; Hinomaki Yellow, Poorman, and Black Velvet gooseberries. Also two little potted wintergreens and a lingonberry. I remember waffling about those, and I wish I'd gotten two lingonberries and a wintergreen instead of the other way around, but it's not really important. The other bare-root order had already come in from St. Lawrence Nurseries - two Carmine Jewel bush cherries, a Fergie juneberry, and some Boyne raspberries. I had hoped for fall-bearing raspberries, but they must've run out, and did a substitution. Those I tucked under some dirt in the back bed, and they waited for me to get the dirt in the right place and be ready to move them to their final locations. Today was the day to move these.
So, here's the juneberry and two apples planted in the front bed, along with the still-healthy plants from last weekend's work. You can't see the juneberry at all really - it's about a foot-tall trio of thin whip-like sticks. The other thing I planted today was sunflowers - years later in the lifecycle, that juneberry will be large and filling up most of the available space, but for now it's tiny, so I thought a backdrop of sunflowers would temporarily cover the lack of non-baby bushes.
Then, that left two cherries and three gooseberries to be planted in back, along with the 4 raspberries in the corner since last week.
Of course, nothing really has much i the way of leaves right now, but there are enough buds to prove to me that things are genuinely alive!