Blueberries in the Snow

Dr. Sansone and a parent volunteer, transplant blueberry bushes into the partly frozen ground.
Dr. Sansone and a parent volunteer, transplant blueberry bushes into the partly frozen ground.

Last weekend was not the optimum time for transplanting berry bushes. The top five centimeters of the soil was still frozen, and the air temperature was below zero Celsius with a cold breeze on top of it. However, we needed to get fourteen blueberry bushes moved, and, with a lot of help from some parents and a couple students, we were able to get the bushes and enough soil laid out to give them a good chance of success when the soil warms up.

Raspberry mounds protected by straw await warmer weather.
Raspberry mounds protected by straw await warmer weather.

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