The blackberries are starting to fill out good. I cant believe they are only one year old. The picture below was taken from the same spot this day last year. Those post are 5 feet tall and the mulch was over 3 feet wide. See below. I was not expecting them to take off so fast. From all that I have read they take 2 years to get to picking size. I am not ready to start my u-pick but it looks the blackberries might be ready. Not sure what to do now. Friends, neighbors and co-workers and their friends might get some prime picking this year. I need to see if I can get some signs or something. I had planned to buy/build a tent or some sort of covered area to place a table and chair under. A place to sit out of the sun while people picked their blackberries. Then have a scale to weigh the berries and some baskets for people to put berries in as they pick and some bags for them to take their berries home in. But I thought I had a year to get this done. The bees are loving the blackberry blooms. As you walk between the rows you hear them buzzing. This one is packing in the pollen but I have watched others digging in deep in the flower they appear to be getting nectar. I placed four 9' 4x4's on the swale above the blackberries. I am going to trellis grapes here. They are evenly spaced 16' apart and I will plant 3 grape vines in the middle of each post. I planted my first vine in the very middle. It is a vine from my mom's bronze muscadine grape. I will plant a black muscadine and a table grape on either side. The wire is just hanging for now. I left my bolts at the house but wanted to get a picture. Once they are bolted on I can tighten them up. If you look close, to the right, you can see were I am clearing out some brush to make room for more blackberry rows. It needs to be cleared out so I can get to the fence to make repairs also.
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