I haven't forgotten about this, just been busy planting! Here's what I've done so far:

Strawberries - 4/10 - planted three plants in the front yard. Looks like I lost one of them already but my mom promises she has more for me.

Blueberry bushes 4/10 - planted three bushes in the front yard. There doesn't seem to be any noticeable growth yet but they certainly don't look dead either. I put some peat moss in the hole when I buried them and then just added a little more around the bushes today.

Raspberry bushes - 4/10 - Not sure if I screwed up my order or the company I ordered from did but I thought I was only getting four bushes and ended up with 12! I planted four of the bushes out front interspersed with the blueberry bushes and the strawberry plants. Three of them went over on the side of the house (next to the house where nobody lives). The rest were just kind of stuck in random spots around the perimeter of the yard. A couple in the very back and a couple on the other side of the house. My mother tells me that they are not very attractive bushes and we might need to transplant them from the front of the house, but I am going to wait for now and see how they do. I hate to transplant them already.

Dawn & Dusk Clematis Rose collection - 4/10 - so far not as fancy as it sounds. I soaked the rose for a couple of hours before I planted it and put the clematis about a foot away. I wasn't sure if the clematis was going to make it at first, but so far so good. After I get most of the garden planted I'm going to put up the arch that I used for my wedding for the rose bush to climb and then the clematis can climb the rose bush. So far no signs of budding on the rose bush.

Asparagus - 4/10 - Boy was that 25 ft. trench a pain to dig out. We finally got it all dug out and the asparagus planted. I think it was the last project of the day and we were tired but we got them all in and they are just starting to poke up. I think this weekend I will buy a couple of bags of good dirt and fill in the rest of the trench. We also cut down a tree over the weekend that was casting a lot of shade. It wasn't in very good shape and it has opened up our yard a lot.

I have to give props to all of the plants due to the fact that they arrived while I was on vacation and sat in my brother-in-law's garage for nearly a week before I was able to plant them. All of them seemed to have survived just fine with the exception of the one strawberry plant which isn't bad at all.