Transplanting blueberry plant, problems with companion spearmint plants, deep mulching and bed preparation. In this video we review how we selected soil that was created passively by mixing woodchips, compost and topsoil to creative fungal dominated soil for transplanting the blueberry plants. I reviewed the problems that we've had growing small blueberry bushes within our zone 1A kitchen garden. The problems we have experienced include deep snowfall bending and tearing limbs and branches, saturated soil (heavily mulched), and integrating spearmint as a companion plant between the blueberry plants which ultimately shaded out the blueberry plants and competed for nutrients. So we decided to transplant the blueberry plants into raised beds in an area that experiences higher winds and less snow accumulation. The beds are initially created using the fungal rich soil from the second food forest where we compost and mulch beds with wood chips. The soil is also amended with Pete Moss and covered with leaf mulch created from a heavily-mulched overwintered carrot bed that was created last fall. The heavy leaf mulch protected the carrots throughout the winter and those carrots were harvested the same day. The used leaf mulch was heavily laden with red wigglers, earthworms and had some mycelium from fungi incorporated into the leaf mulch. This leaf mulch was used to encompass the raised bed containing the root balls of the blueberry plants. Although not shown in this video coffee grounds would be incorporated on top of the leaf mulch and I also plan to inoculate mycelium rich leaf material from the maple forest just before adding the woodchips cover the raised beds. I will also be installing a soaker hose to facilitate watering during the drought times we experience during the summer. As time permits and the weather cooperate, I will try and post videos of various activities that I'm involved in on the demonstration site. Hopefully this year I will be able to raise the greenhouse that I disassembled a few years ago. If you have any questions or comments please leave them below and I will get to them as soon as I can. Thanks so much for watching please share and give this a thumbs-up if you think it's of value. Have a fantastic day! Our Website: https://tinyurl.com/ha8f63s Facebook: https://tinyurl.com/hnyks2s Twitter: https://twitter.com/Drkpwallace ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPz1YaGQnrs

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