Blueberries are in

Celebrating our successful planting of 14 blueberry plants to the garden.
After getting our soil tested, which thankfully revealed the soil in our patch to be acidic enough to plant without requiring the  addition of sulfur, we hacked and dug a planting space in the clay, and amended the soil with pine chip soil conditioner and fertilizer.
Then we planted the blueberries this weekend.
We're very excited to get them in, even though it will be a couple of years before we will actually be picking any berries.

Spring Ahead

This past weekend was the annual time to set the clocks ahead one hour, or "spring ahead" for daylight savings time.
As always in gardening, we've had to keep a wary eye toward the weather forecast. The weather in Feb. stayed cool and rainy for the most part, but in spite of it we managed to make progress.
Starting the first Saturday in February, we had to cancel twice on cold rainy days.  The second time a couple of us went out to the garden on Sunday afternoon.
Since the ninth of February, the garden has been springing ahead slowly, as we cleared mulch from the beds, weeded, planted some early seeds, and some onion plants.
This week we'll be adding some blueberry plants.  That project involves some digging into the clay soil, and adding pine chip soil conditioner, which we started last weekend.