Here i am again i finally have gotten around to taking some pictures of a LITTLE side project i embarked upon this spring. As those of you that have been following my blog know that i planted and bought enough strawberries and raspberries this spring to start a little berry patch for selling at the farmers market. After i planted that initial patch back in April i had an opportunity arise after a friend told me about an orchard being developed closer to the city and that plants there were free for the taking as they were just being bulldozed. So to make a long story short after a few weeks of digging and ripping a few thousand extra raspberry canes out i managed to plant about an extra 14 rows of berries that i hadn't planned on. While they did suffer during the very dry spring in Ontario they have survived and are now thriving while these pictures don't show the whole patch it does cover a large area and hopefully within one or two years these thin rows will look a lot fuller. I also at the same time managed to dig out 18 dwarf apple trees from the same orchard which will hopefully allow me in a year or two to be able to start selling some of my own apples. While it took a lot of energy and time to do this i think that it will be great boost to the amount of raspberries i will have for sale next season and even by this fall i should be getting a respectable amount off them. While i know i didnt pay for these plants i like to think of it as a plant rescue as the effort and time i put into them more than makes up for not paying for them.
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