It was time to make our yard a bit more permanent by planting some woody perennial plants. After ripping off the lower deck last year, we planted a currant and gooseberry along the south fence. This year after getting the gas lines marked in the backyard we had to change our plans of where we originally wanted to plant fruit trees. Here you can see where we planted 2 blueberry bushes with a cucumber in the middle. This is the space where our higher deck was last fall.
When there are sales mid to late season at any store in town, I have to scope them out. On one of my trips I got 2 other blueberry bushes at Zellers for $5 each and a golden elderberry, seen planted by our pallet composter in the alley along with a volunteer rhubarb and some raspberries.
This year was the first time our currant bush produced! We made the juice from the berries into a beautiful jam along with other fruit from our yard and alley: rhubarb, raspberry,& nanking cherry.
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