We Have Trellises

[helen99]

Side Job :p rescheduled for tomorrow. Two minutes after I stepped off the elevator and walked into their office, the power went out. Glad I wasn't *in* the elevator when it went out. A construction crew working in the area hit a power line, which affected a radius of a block or two (including my own office).

The fact that there was no power in my own office (and no window, so it was pitch black in there) meant I had a couple of hours to wander around in dangerous places. I went to the nursery and got:

2 tomato plants
1 blueberry bush
2 strawberry plants
2 cauliflower plants
2 broccoli plants
2 trellises

I underestimated the length of the two trellises. Luckily, I'd never unpacked my camping gear from last year's Thresholds (heh), so I had about 50 bungee cords, a 25' rope and two 3' ropes. That was enough to secure both trellises to the top of the car so I could take them home. There they reside now until I get off from work, going on the assumption that they'd be too much trouble to steal. It took me about half an hour to tie them down. By the time I finished battling with the trellises, the power was back on.

Anyway, here's the plan:

Stake the two tomatoes in ceramic containers with good drainage on the sunny side stoop.
Anchor the trellises on either side of the stoop about 2 feet away from the house. Start training the now-budding hearty kiwi up one of the trellises. Not sure what will go on the other one yet. Perhaps a maypop vine.
Put the 2 strawberry plants with the houtounyas inside the circular rock border in the back yard where the dead rowan (now removed) was - they'll get some sun there.

That leaves the blueberry and the vegetables (broccoli and cauliflowers). rialian, any ideas where to put those?

Edit after phone conversation - Suggestions so far: Put blueberries either in Garden Patch #3 or near the pine trees. They like acidic soil, and they'll get some sun either place - leaning toward Garden Patch #3. I'll ask them where they want to go. Maybe one of them can stay in a ceramic container and travel up one of the trellises. The vegetables will go in the keyhole patches by the fence.

My younger brother Jason said that he's not surprised that rialian is growing gooseberries, by the way. I'm not sure why the term "gooseberries" has stuck in his mind with respect to rialian, but ... it's Jason... The first time Jason heard the word "gooseberry", and heard the fruit described as "striated", he laughed uproariously hysterically for about 10 minutes (we never did figure out why)...