8 Things I Learned While Farming this Summer

[JoeyT]

66. I tried planting some,

but we've got some sort of blight that hammers any domesticated raspberries or blackberries into the ground. It kills most of the wild ones, too. No clue what's causing it.

Have you tried blueberries? We're not on a mountain, but we are almost pure rock/sand hills here, and they thrive in it and they're cheap to care for. It's not necessary, but at most if you want them to bear really heavily you can go find a cotton mill and fill up a truck bed with cotton seed meal for thirty or forty bucks and spread it around them.

In winter, cabbage does fairly well if fertilized heavily, and mustard takes over the world, especially if you plant the larger variety hybrids like Florida Broadleaf or Tendergreens (Broadleaf mustard/spinach hybrid)