March 1st, time for Christianson’s 20% off bareroot sale!  Sale started on Saturday which was a great excuse for an outing.  The usual suspects gathered at the nursery for a day of fun.  As usual, weather was awful, icey rain and cold wind, temps in the high 30’s.  Downloaded some pdf files from the local universities on blueberry varieties to my Nexus which helped some, but it was still hard to make selections on the spot.  I wound up with two bushes.  One is Chandler, a big robust looking plant with a decent description and the other is Blueray, a very small and fragile plant, but the description sounded good.  I’ll try to add the tagged descriptions later…

Last year’s bushes that still have tags are ‘Collins‘, medium to large size fruit, midseason and ‘Toro‘, large fruit and also midseason.  Another has lost its tag and the last never had a tag, purchased already potted on close out at Cenex late summer.

Jayne purchased ‘Darrow‘ and ‘Burlington’ to add to her collection.  Simone decided to defer for now.

I also purchased 2 bareroot asparagus plants ‘Mary Washington’ variety.  They will be an experiment.