Spring Workday

Yesterday it was warmish and sunny at last and we burst outside in a huge rush of energy and desire to work on growing things. I pruned the blueberries, turning this-Into this-

and just repeating the process 12 more times to end up with 13 properly pruned blueberry bushes for delicious berries in July and August. They'll only produce berries on the newer wood, so each year we have to remove about 1/3 of the older branches. Then Jim picked up the prunings and piled them in the woods, to make another safe harbor for the rabbits to make a home in.
He dug a hole and put up a pole for one end of the new grape arbor. Digging a hole-a little deeper-and adding cement to secure the vertical in place. Our vines are growing each year and need a good strong support. He'll string a braided wire cable, covered in plastic that should stand up to many years of weather and heavy, delicious grapes.

What a terrific day. We've ordered a composting worm bed and it arrived Monday, we readied it and the worms arrived yesterday.

10,000 worms!

We opened the box and sprinkled them on top of the prepared bedding and they burrowed right down in and started munching the stuff up.
The whole assembly will sit in a corner of the greenhouse and make wonderful black gold fertilizer for us to use on our plants indoors and out.

It sure felt good to get so much done.