Great article Rich! Thanks for sharing the photos of the fungi, rock dust and vermi-compost. It will help to know what to look for when buying it in a shop.
Also great seeing the photos of how you built the beds up.
Growing a new blueberry bush is one of the harder gardening tasks as it feels horrible pulling the new flowers off for the first 2 years. You have to ... For the good of the plant... It breaks your plant-parent heart but it is best. Especially if it's a small plant you'll have to remove the flowers so that it can grow. Also later on you'll have to thin out the flowers if you see it's making lots of small flowers and small fruits. This makes the fruit bigger. It helps having a couple of berry bushes just for this reason alone.
Get one of those big dry wipe calendars from Checkers for making gardening notes. ( If you cut it in half it fits on the inside of a closet door) It's the only way I actually remember things because I forget to look at a calendar on my phone until the actual day and then I haven't had time to prep. :)
Just a heads up you have a duplicated paragraph at the beginning of the post.
I've had a good result from the Strawberry plants sold at Hillcrest Berry Orchard. Started with 3 in 2012 and they've grown well and their offspring are still growing.
Looking forward to the next one!
Thanks guys. Yes I want to visit the berry farm in September ! You will have to. One with and show me a good variety of strawberry
hmm, I think they only have one variety of strawberry and I'm not sure if they always have plants. Should maybe check out if Garden barrow has strawberries for sale? I just have to double check what kind of condition they're in but I have a couple of strawberry plants who would do well under your care.