TODAY’S DISCOVERY

We had another sunny day, so I wandered the homestead checking where I needed to water (very few places).

While fertilizing the berry bushes, look what I discovered:

There are berries on the boysenberry bushes!

I planted these in Spring 2021 and Spring 2022. Last year they had flowers that didn’t become berries but this year there are BERRIES!

I will let the birds have them this year. Next year though, I will be getting netting to save them all for ME!

Actually, this fall I plan to move them to a different area (a benefit of container gardening). Currently, they are on the edge of my property. The neighbor’s ground has blackberry suckers that, while they don’t mind if we mow them down, have become a lot of work to keep under control. Boysenberries cannot have blackberries (or raspberries) nearby so we will just move the boysenberries until we can eradicate the blackberries.

That’s the plan.