My Gentleman Farmer...

Last week we had some really pretty days in Sadieville. Claude took advantage of these to do some yard work. I have always wanted blueberry bushes on our property. Claude found some of these at Lowe's and purchased 3 bushes. When we first moved here, in an effort to keep soil on the top of our hill, Claude built what we call 'water breaks' out of rock from the hill. They are just little arched walls of rock spaced out down the little drainage area between the lot our home is on and the vacant lot we own next to us. Originally Claude put decorative fountain grass in each of the breaks except the bottom one. He determined to move the fountain grass from one of the water breaks and use that water break in which to plant the blueberry bushes. Then he made a new little water break where the water drains from the roof of the house comes out to the bottom edge of the upper back yard. This new water break is where he transplanted the fountain grass. I took the picture from the upper deck. I'm not quite healed enough to tromp up and down our hill. It takes about 3 years (and no deer eating the bushes) before they yield blueberries. I'm really tickled to have these bushes and truly appreciate my 'gentleman farmer' and his John Deere tractor and trailer doing all this work for our home.