New Edible Landscape Things

59*, 30.2 in and falling barometer, 36% humidity, ESE 12 mph wind, fair

Today's sky view:
I'm not feeling good again. Last night the pain in my throat/neck/ears kept me up. I think I finally managed to get to sleep around 5 am. But that didn't last long before Brandi wanted up for her walk waking everyone up. So I couldn't sleep again for the 3rd or 4th day in a row. This is freaking miserable. I had to get at least some of the more delicate plants in the ground that had arrived earlier so I got dressed and went outside.

I noted first my pretty red tulips blooming in their full glory. Aren't they great? They are much better in person though.

OK, I lied again. Those aren't my tulips either. They are my neighbors tulips. She never even planted them though and didn't even know what they were. I have tulip envy :(. All I have is a stupid ugly orange tulip.

So I got to work tucking a few of the new plants into the ground. This is the cranberry plant. I will have to cover it with straw or leaves in the winter as the flower buds are not reliably hardy to this zone without reliable snow cover or a bog.
Here is the concord grape. I'm not sure how to prune this thing. One book tells me to let it grow wild the first year then cut to a single strong stem, another source tells me to cut to one branch now and let only that one grow this year. What would you do?
I thought I hadn't received my strawberries yesterday but I had. I'm glad I checked the box again, I had missed them in all the newspaper stuffing. The roots were pretty dry so I soaked them for a while in water before planting them. These are a later variety called 'Sparkle'. I hope they send runners out and spread. My other strawberry 'berries galore' is being mean and not sending any runners out what so ever and it's the best tasting strawberry ever! In fact its in bloom already.

Well, that's it. I'm going in to try to rest a little more.