Time to Garden!

I'd swear I was still in Southern NJ with the temperatures being in the 70's in April!  With such warm weather, the apportunity to get into my gardens a month early is a joy.  Although the vegetable gardens take up more space than my fruits, I'm always eager to find one more place to plant raspberries, strawberries, and blueberries.

The very productive golden raspberries provide us with fruit from May through early November.  What a great choice these were!

This year, I'm adding Junebearing strawberries to my new plantings.  The Ozark everbearings are delicious but it's always nice to have huge berries to counterbalance rhubarb in a pie. 

Blueberries, specifically NJ blueberries (you know those big sweet quarter sized berries), are what I've desired in my gardens but haven't been able to grow for some reason.  Looking online this morning I came accross DiMeo Blueberry Farms, which is a large farm in Hammonton and ships plants.  As my late husband's aunts and uncles worked for the Hammonton blueberry farmers, it helps me reconnect with both NJ and those I've lost.  I will prepare a special area for these plants and remember!