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Here Comes the Plant Car…. Berries Being Planted!

By: Pamela Reed
Posted:6/14/16
Updated:6/14/16

Beep, Beep,  the plant car is here! Jump on it if you can find a spot.  And be careful for the rose bushes!

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While the vegetables are growing in the garden, this past weekend we headed to Lowe’s to pretty much buy all their fruit bushes and Rhododendron plants that they had.   We had 5 big garden carts filled with berries, trees and flowers going down the checkout aisle, while people marveled on how we were going to fit it into our tiny little car.  Our small neon yellow Honda Fit has carried quite a lot since we got it in the Fall, people are always amazed by how much it can carry!    I’m not sure if we could have fit any more plants in it,  branches were literally reaching out and tickling our noses in the front seat.

Do you think we got enough plants?
I don't know, do you think we got enough plants? Even better we fit them all in to our tiny car. ???

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Surprisingly none of the plants even broke a branch being tucked in to the car.  Gently I pulled them out of the car and wheeled them over to the area of grass that Matthew just mowed so we could begin plotting out our berry patch.
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Here’s 12 raspberry plants.   Raspberries are my favorite berry so I got a bunch of them!
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And one by one, Matthew dug up holes for the raspberries, blackberries, blueberries, strawberries and grapes!  
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The morning was full of pouring rain (we had to take cover once!) which made digging and planting not as enjoyable as it could have been, but free water is always welcomed on the land.
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The berry patch is laid out that each berry has it’s own row, with raspberries to the right, strawberries to the left and other berries in between.  This picture doesn’t look like much but this is almost 50 berry plants!  Let’s see how it looks at the end of Summer.
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The grapes (2 green, 2 purple) were planted outside the garden. We hope to have the grapes climb up the fence with time.
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Besides that we also planted Rhododendrons (varieties: PJM, Anah Kruschke, Boursault, English Roseum) and Roses (Knock Out and Flamingo Kolorscape) all along the outside of the garden on 3 sides.   Can’t wait to see them bloom to add some color to the super green landscape.
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Lastly, we added this beautiful Sky Trails Serbian Spruce to the land.  He’s shaggy and beautiful!

 

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And speaking of trees… remember when we planted our Christmas tree?  We were worried it wasn’t going to survive but check out all the new growth we spotted on it! *Dances* I’m so happy!
Out Christmas tree we planted survived Winter. Look at the new growth! ??

Now comes the task of trying to keep the deer away from the berries!  

Wish us luck because there are LOTS of deer hanging out on land.   I’m trying to make some type of truce with them, but they always stick their tongue out at me when I talk to them.
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What types of fruit are you growing this year? Let me know in the comments!

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  1. Susan says

    June 19, 2016 at 3:29 pm

    I wish I could grow fruit here – just not enough available sunlight. If I could it would be raspberries for sure. What a wonderful haul of plants! Hope your backs are staying in good shape with all of that planting 🙂

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  2. Suzanne says

    June 16, 2016 at 5:04 pm

    Fantastic, your plot of land is really shaping up. Love everything you are planting.

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  3. Juliana says

    June 16, 2016 at 4:48 pm

    Wow Pamela…I can imagine how much fun you had…I would love to have all this berries and grapes…and I already look forward to see more of it.
    Hope you are enjoying your week 🙂

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  4. Cakespy says

    June 16, 2016 at 7:35 am

    Perfect – what an idyllic summer project and trip! <3

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  5. John/Kitchen Riffs says

    June 15, 2016 at 10:47 am

    What fun! And yes, I’m amazed you fit all those plants in your Fit. Guess they call it Fit for a reason. 🙂 Fun pictures — thanks.

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  6. Dannii @ Hungry Healthy Happy says

    June 15, 2016 at 7:21 am

    Oh wow! You are going to have so much amazing produce. I can’t wait to see what you make with it all.

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  7. Debbie from MountainMama says

    June 15, 2016 at 4:20 am

    Never mind the deer, you better hope the bears don’t start coming around! They love berries!! Wow, great job, absolutely love what you’re doing on your land. I’m curious how many rocks your sweetie pulled out of all those holes? Do you have a giant pile somewhere now?

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