What did you do in your garden today?

[Trying2keepitReal]

I agree with raspberries and black berries in a row with space to mow around them. Think 12" - 18" wide row. You might want to put sturdy fence around it if you have a type that arches more. However, some varieties fruit on new canes and should be mowed every year and then you wouldn't want or need fence. The more common type fruit on 2 year old canes and you prune canes out after picking. If you don't prune the row becomes almost impossible to pick because of thorns.

Thanks! I am hoping to do 2 rows. I will have a mix of fruiting on new vs 2nd yr canes. I am all about pruning!

 

[Alaskan]

You could also have a post on each raspberry row end... and then put up strung between the 2 posts, if any support is needed.

My raspberries never needed help standing up.... I think blackberries are a but more floppy??

 

[Alaskan]

Oh... one thought on blue berries.... I used to have a row of them... then one year we had a rodent explosion. SO MANY!

The rodents girdled every single blueberry twig... all of them... so that every single one of my blueberry bushes died...

I think I had 8 bushes?

Anyway... I never replanted... not sure how I could have kept the rodent plague out... maybe put a cage over each bush?

Anyway..... I had the bushes for years until the winter of the rodent plague.... so... not a common problem.

 

[CrealCritter]

Oh... one thought on blue berries.... I used to have a row of them... then one year we had a rodent explosion. SO MANY!

The rodents girdled every single blueberry twig... all of them... so that every single one of my blueberry bushes died...

I think I had 8 bushes?

Anyway... I never replanted... not sure how I could have kept the rodent plague out... maybe put a cage over each bush?

Anyway..... I had the bushes for years until the winter of the rodent plague.... so... not a common problem.

How big were these rodents?

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[Hinotori]

You could also have a post on each raspberry row end... and then put up strung between the 2 posts, if any support is needed.

My raspberries never needed help standing up.... I think blackberries are a but more floppy??

That's how the berry farms do it here. I'll see if I can get a picture tomorrow. The canes are tied in loops to the wires. Blackberries and raspberries are treated that way.

 

[FarmerJamie]

Drove past the community garden place. My son thought the plots might be in the corn fields they rented out (he used to live across the street). Looks like a 200-300 yard hike from the parking lot to the field.

Couldn't help myself. Bought seeds this morning.

 

[Alaskan]

How big were these rodents?
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Ha!

Nah... little voles..

 

[CrealCritter]

Braced the H ends with X twists of high tinsel wire and also stretched and stapled 2 pulls of the same high tinsel wire for the grape vine. I'm including page 338 of Storeys Basic County Skills book. This book continues to be my "go to" for a lot of questions and information. Grape vine wires are 3' and 5' off the ground. Also some other good info in the book about grapes. Let me know and I can post more pictures of the grapes pages. But I would suggest buying the book, it's a good one.

After farm babe and I were done stretching wires she said we should put something on the wires for people to see. I said why? She said someone come running through here and get hurt. So she grabbed an old towel and cut it into strips and tied to the wires. She just got done cutting strips and here comes Jake the neighbors dog. She grabbed those strips of the ground real quick, cause Jake would have took off with them. I think Jake thinks he's my dog . I like him and according to my neighbor, I'm his favorite person. He is a pretty cool black lab, he swims in the pond with the ducks and makes me smile and laugh a lot with his puppy antics and face lickings

I mulched in 50 foot row of white sweet spanish onions with hay. Both rows yellow and white onions are showing new growth leaves, so are the 3 50 foot rows of cabbages we set out last weekend

I set peppers outside again to continue hardening off.

And I finally got big momma aloe vera growing vertical instead of horizontal. Big momma survived the transplant and is putting on new growth. I wonder what she'll do in that new big pot hard telling... she's a crazy cacti

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[Trying2keepitReal]

going to be 60 here today, overcast with a breeze. Going to head out and finish up the raspberry/blackberry bed, turn in the compost and cover with black plastic for a couple weeks until my plants come. I put in a wood border yesterday, so I will finish that off today. I need to make a couple H frames and wire it off, similar to your grape one @CrealCritter, with two rows of wires and eyelet screws. I have one more small (3x5) bed to add compost and turn and cover which will be for something, not sure what yet.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Put out a couple more transplants. Not doing anything else outside today with the crazy wind we're having. Gonna hide inside until it (hopefully) dies down some this evening.