I can't seem to get any writing done tonight, so I stepped out into my back yard to check on my blueberry bushes. I started out with nine bushes four years ago and lost three of them, one a year, from planting them too close. Probably the lack of weeding and proper mulching had something to do with it too.
Surprisingly, the remaining six look okay. The winter, while warm, has not rained nearly enough for the bushes. There's not much green and hardly any flowers. Berries don't come out until May or June, usually. But now is the time to proactively water, fertilize, and care for them. So I weeded and gave them a thick bed of pine straw in the hopes that it will help things along. I also bought a new Rabbit's Eye to plant and will probably buy another two or three bushes to plant this weekend. This time, these bushes go further apart from the others.
Other things on the garden list:
1) get another citrus tree to pollinate the Honeybell Tangelo (should have asked the nursery for directions instead of waiting 2 years for no results.
2) replace the baby key lime tree that died on me last winter.
3) Get landscape timbers, vermiculite, and extra top soil to build up my front border area and plant my crocuses and blue irises.
I see sore knees and lots of back spasms in my immediate future.
