Property Layout

Here is the current layout of our property. The chickens are closest to the road (As far as where we are developing) then the trailer and garden are behind the chickens and behind the trailer is the blackberries. All this is a little less than 2 acres.

We then have 4 more acres behind where we are developing that are grown up woods and marsh land.

Using Pine straw to Fight Frost

We planted 5 blue berry bushes along the back side of our garden last week. 3 were pink blue berries? and 2 were traditional blue berries.

We had a few nights of potential frost coming up so we mounded up pine straw all around and over the top of the newly planted to bushes to try and preserve the new growth they had on it.

The frost was heavy and it got down to 27 degrees, but all of the plants did great except one. It was sticking out just slighty of the pine straw when we came to check on it and got the tip of it burned.

Overall great success and we used what we had on the property versus using plastic, buckets, or jars to cover it up. My wife was a genius when she thought of that one.

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