The previous owner had flowers planted in mulch running along the yard side of the pool fence. I let them get overrun with weeds and it got pretty messy. Over the next few months, I slowly turned it around. This photo was taken on June 21, 2018.August 19, 2018 – I planted a blackberry vine purchased from Walmart on the left. The right side is a Muscadine Grape plant purchased from Lowe’s. My goal is to have both plants trellised along the fence.August 27, 2018 – slowly bringing the bed together with some paver bricks, still only the blackberry and grape planted.August 27, 2018 – all of the weeds and former flowers have been ripped outAugust 29, 2018 – I planted a little blueberry bush between the blackberry and grape, purchased from Orchard Supply Hardware. Grape leaves are coming in nice and I finished mulching the area.September 13, 2018 – lots of trips to Home Depot buying paver bricksSeptember 13, 2018 – but still need to buy more bricksSeptember 13, 2018 – decided to extend the garden bed and planted strawberries on the end purchased from Home Depot. Still need to figure out what else to plant.September 15, 2018 – grapes looking niceSeptember 15, 2018 – garden bed is completeSeptember 15, 2018 – strawberries on the endSeptember 15, 2018 – decided to plant some onion chives (right) and mint (left)September 22, 2018September 29, 2018 – paver bricks are down, weed barrier is down, now time to fill with quartz rocksSeptember 29, 2018September 30, 2018October 2, 2018October 2, 2018October 8, 2018 – bought some solar landscape lights to pull it togetherOctober 14, 2018 – still need another bag or two of quartz rocksOctober 18, 2018 – finally complete!October 18, 2018 – lights on in the evening!October 22, 2018 – decided to replace the chives with brussel sprouts (second from the right)October 30, 2018October 30, 2018 – a few blackberry shoots are now stretching down the right side fenceNovember 23, 2018 – blackberry shoots are getting longerNovember 23, 2018 – grapes are nice and full of leavesNovember 23, 2018November 23, 2018 – I also planted a raspberry bush just outside the bed to the left of the blackberriesJanuary 5, 2019 – blackberry shoots are now halfway down the fenceJanuary 5, 2019 – bed is looking nice, brussel sprouts are hugeJanuary 5, 2019 January 5, 2019 – raspberry plant is looking nice and big January 19, 2019 January 27, 2019 – blackberry shoots are still goingMarch 10, 2019 – after losing all the leaves over the winter, I pruned back the grapes leaving only two branches, today new leaves started coming inMarch 10, 2019 – I saw this blackberry bush at Walmart which had blackberries already on it. Since I still haven’t even seen a flower on the other blackberry plant, I decided to buy this oneMarch 14, 2019 – blackberry starting to turn colorMarch 14, 2019 – I pruned back some of the raspberry shoots, now the main one is getting super tallMarch 14, 2019March 31, 2019 – blackberries almost ready to pickMarch 31, 2019 – first black raspberries coming inMarch 31, 2019 – grapes!April 1, 2019 – picked a blackberry and raspberry, both sweet!April 10, 2019 – nice new growth on the grapesApril 10, 2019April 10, 2019April 11, 2019 – bought another blueberry plant from Walmart. The other one wasn’t fruiting and this one was loaded with fruit in the store.April 11, 2019 – lots of blueberriesApril 17, 2019 – finally flowers emerging on the original blackberry plantApril 17, 2019April 17, 2019 – turns out those weren’t grapes, but flower budsApril 28, 2019 – now those are grapes!April 28, 2019May 3, 2019 – giant blackberry!May 8, 2019May 16, 2019 – really delicious blueberriesMay 20, 2019June 3, 2019 – lots of flowers on the original blackberry vineJune 3, 2019June 8, 2019 – the blackberry vine has grown down the whole fenceThe grape vines are getting really long tooJune 16, 2019June 17, 2019June 17, 2019July 28, 2019April 9, 2020 – blackberries coming in againApril 18, 2020April 20, 2020April 21, 2020 – sooooo sweet
Ben's Garden 