A Freebie and Propagating Blueberries

My neighbor Earl was cleaning out some of the wooded and overgrown areas of his property yesterday and came across this old rabbit hutch. We have no idea just how long it has been sitting there - Earl has lived next to me for 2 years and the man before him never had rabbits that I ever saw.

It is going to take quite a bit of work to get this back into usable shape again. It is quite large - 3 feet wide x 4 1/2 feet long and it is very heavy.

It will be quite a bit shorter when I am finished with it as a good bit of the leg area has begun to rot away.I have some extra concrete blocks laying around that I plan to set it on once I am finished fixing it up.

I have finally gotten around to taking cuttings of my blueberry bushes. It just seems like there is so much that needs to be done here and not much time before snow begins to fly. It is not uncommon to see a good bit of snow on the ground in October.

I took 4 cuttings from each of my 5 plants. I sniped a good 6 inch piece for each of the cuttings.

I then stripped a god bit of the lower leaves off of each cutting. Then I placed each cutting about 2 inches into soil and gave a fairly good watering.

I am not sure how well they will do but even if only 1/2 of them make it that will give me 10 new blueberry plants to put into the ground next year. I plan on keeping them in the house over the winter as I think they will be a bit to tender to deal with our harsh climate here in Maine. I am also interested to see how much they grow before spring right now they are about 4 - 4 1/2 inches tall.

Blueberries :)

These are the blueberry plants that I put in this Spring. The chickens seem to love blueberry leaves and at one point had stripped all three bushes of all of their leaves.

I still have 2 more plants that need to be put into the ground. I picked them up the other day - they were on clearance at a nursery that I stopped in at in Skowhegan. I was able to pick up both of the new bushes for under 5.00 each!

I have a huge front lawn - about 1/4 of an acre, my goal is to fill it with blueberry bushes. I was surfing around on youtube this morning and saw a video that shows you how to propagate the blueberries by taking cuttings. I am going to give it a try at some point next week. If it works out it will save me a bundle of money. I figure that I can fit around 50 more blueberry bushes in this area and that sure would add up to a bunch of $$ if I end up having to buy them all.

I picked this aloe up on a yard sale this Spring. When I first got this aloe it was so tiny. It now needs to be repoted into a gallon pot and is growing a baby :)When I first got it I really doubted that it would even survive as it had been frost burned so badly.It did end up losing a few of the lower leaves but has done better than I ever thought it would!