Showing posts with label garden. Show all posts
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Monday, March 9, 2009

Raspberry Research

I am not sure if the same process listed below for blueberries should be used for raspberries, but I did find some valuable information at The Garden Helper, the University of Main Cooperative Extension, and the Alaska Master Gardeners Association is always a fabulous help.

My parents have a T trellis in their backyard for berries. The site from the U of Maine lists several other trellis forms I might look into depending on the landscaping of our future yard.

Blueberries

Blueberry bushes like acidic soil and I like me some delicious blueberries..I plan to plant blueberries and raspberries on our property...wherever that may be..?!? So I just ran across a brilliant idea to get some blueberry plants to grow.




wikiHow: How to dig swales

They are called swales. They look very easy to maintain after a bit of hard digging. We wouldn't need a big swale. I would want to make sure we didn't build one where a nasty run-off would create somewhere downslope - say on the house foundation. I am intrigued. I'll have to look into it more later.