I'm replanting my Strawberry beds this spring and I've bought some blueberries and Marion berries as well. I'm considering moving all my berries because there are sandwiched between our garage and shed and don't get enough sunlight. I need to explain our zone. I live in the dessert and our last frost can be as late as the end of May. Then we get only a few weeks before the temps get up in the 100s. I'm trying to learn how to grow berries here so one reason why I've had them in the shade was because of the intensity of the heat. I'm planning on mulching them more so hopefully that will prevent what ususally occures, berries drying on the vine in one day. My hubby doesn't really want me to move the beds and dig up more sod. I will have allot of work to do because I will be digging up my raspberries as well. I was planning on only expecting a fall crop this year from them if I do. If I do move all my berries I might try and grow lettuce and other greens in that bed. Things that don't like the heat so much.
What do you all think?
Sagewoodfarm
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The strawberries will be fine if they are moved, we get 100+ temperatures up here too, and my patch of quinalts do just fine as long as they are watered. The other berries I grow also do just fine as long as they are mulched around the base with pine chippings and kept watered as needed.
The drier the climate, the more enticing those berries will look to the local birds. Plan now on getting some floating row cover or a bird-netting 'cage' so you can enjoy your harvest.