Berry, Berry Dirty

raspberriesAs fruit goes, I like raspberries best of all.

When we bought our first house, I discovered raspberry bushes behind the garage. Each morning, I was ridiculously excited to pick a little bowl of berries, just for me.

We’ve moved a bajillion times since then, and at each new house, I’ve always talked about getting raspberry bushes, but have never done it. Mostly because I’m not an overachiever, but also becauseā€¦ No, that’s pretty much the only reason.

We own a house again, and it has a yard. So I started my raspberry bush talk a few months ago. I even toyed with ideas of where to plant them.

You and I both know it was going nowhere fast.

However, the other day at the grocery store, my eye caught a display of raspberry plants. They came in a box, which doesn’t seem like the most legitimate way to buy a plant, but what do I know?

I was enticed by the picture of fat, juicy berries. On the other hand, I struggled with the commitment. Once I bought them, I’d have to keep them alive. Plus, I was debating if I should really buy plants in a box or wait and buy them somewhere more real. Like a nursery.

In the end, I concluded that it couldn’t go too wrong for $5.99. And if I didn’t buy them there, I would never buy them; I’ve had some experience with myself.

As mentally taxing as it was to buy the plants, it was nothing compared to what came next.

Planting.

I had to dig a hole. I don’t regularly use digging implements or muscles, so this was a bit of a concern. I found a little hand trowel and an old shovel with a broken handle, left by the previous home owners.

Here’s the thing with dirt. When you start digging, there are worms. White grubby worms and brown slimy worms. I was sweaty and flinging dirt around and just trying to stay away from the worms. It was a terrible.

Eventually the little raspberry plants were in their awful, wormy hole.

I now realize that my years of not planting anything was birthed in wisdom, fueled by intuition. I’m not cut out for such crazy stuff.

There had better be berries in the morning.

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