well i went outside today and started working on my new hedgerows for the perimeter of my new garden area that i'm going to be working on..
i moved the killarney, the heritage and the fallgold raspberries today to the west side of my garden..still have the blackberries and the black raspberries yet to move..
i moved 2 of the 4 wild plums that i have to move..for the west end of my NORTH hedgerow for the garden, the east side side of the north hedgerow is already planted with baby hazelnut trees.
also on the west side on either side of that raspberry row i just moved are two sweet chestnut trees..
i still have to dig up a rotting old fence and remove it..to move the rest of the raspberries and blackberries..and then i'll have 3 sides of the garden hedged in with berry bushes..the south is already done with blueberries.
the plan is heavy mulch and sheet
compost around all the berries, and some of that is already done..and also to do the same under the wild plum and hazelnuts..but i would like to have some plants under the hazelnuts and the wild plums..they both will be multistemmed hedges, but was hoping to get advice on what to put below them rather than just mulch..if anything..this is a zone 5 /4 garden in northern LP of Michigan
i understand that the wild plums will be quite thorney as they grow up..so i probably don't want anything i would be picking for food crops or that i would have to dig up and divide perennial wise..and not having ever dealt with the wild plums i'm not sure what to expect..(got these by mistake and wasn't sure i even wanted to keep them..but figured a thorney hedge on the north end of my garden might not be a bad idea with all of our wildlife