What is going on everyone? Kevin from Evigardining here today. We're going to be talking about an underrated

Berry the Linganberry weird name delicious Berry and a really prolific grower once you get it established correctly.

So like some other berries that we know about, blueberries for example, it's going to need

relatively acidic soil and when I say relatively actually mean very

acidic soil somewhere around a 4.2 to a 5.2 so if you can you can get an acid

lover's soil mix and that's going to make your job a lot easier

instead of adding you know sulfur or something like that to your soil. It will

need full sun if possible in zones like 4 to 9 it will need full sun. In zone 10

plus you may want to put it in a semi shady area with maybe with a little bit of

airflow just to go ahead and cut off some of that extreme heat that might cause

the plant some stress. Now as far as spacing usually about a foot to a foot and a

half apart and then four to five feet between rows. I feel like you can get them a little bit

closer between rows though. And then when you're putting your Lincolnberry starts in,

you want to dig a hole that's at least two times the size of the root ball, and

then you'll want to set the plant in the hole, just make sure that the root ball is level

with the surrounding soil, and then you just backfill right back in and then water deeply.

That's the way that you make sure that there's no weird air pockets that are going to

make the root ball suffer some stress because it's just sitting suspended in there. So not a good idea to do that. So definitely give it a nice deep water.

And then it's usually a good idea to go ahead and mulch it, maybe some wood chip mulch throw four to six inches on and that'll help it be nice and moist throughout the growing season.

Now the thing about this is you're going to want to keep that mulch there especially because you've got some

weed pressure that can really compete with nutrients, water, etc. with

Lingenberry plants and you'll want to keep it well watered. Now here in San Diego especially in California we're doing

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