Planting Perennial Fruits

Straw As Mulch Around Newly Planted Blueberry "Bushes"

Back in early winter when things were dreary, we got a fruit plant catalog in the mail. Looking through it, I got carried away and made a pretty significant and somewhat crazy order.

I ordered blueberry bushes (we really don't have the right soil and will need to stay on top of amendments), gooseberries, elderberries (we have wild elderberry bushes but I wanted more...), a rhubarb variety that I wanted to add to our "collection", zone 4 tolerant kiwi varieties, and a couple of horseradish roots (not a fruit - I know - but it was in the catalog).

Skip ahead in time and the order had been forgotten until Friday night when we received a late in the day delivery of all the associated root stock.

As we didn't have the time or the "game plan" ready to go, we put the little plastic bags containing said roots into the refrigerator. Yesterday (Saturday) we had time to begin planting.

I was able to plant a handful of things, but then I got too tired digging and Ed bailed me out with the remaining items. Today (Sunday), I mulched everything with straw in an effort to keep moisture in and weeds out.

Fingers crossed that it all takes!