We have alkali soil here, so the blueberries are in (big) pots. I mix my own soils every year, with the primary ingredients coming from the compost heaps. Every year acquire another small blueberry, so I'm getting quite the collection. I'm thinking about heavily ammending a section of the yard and planting them there, but so far they do so well in pots, all in a row on the shady side of my garden, that I haven't been motivated to change anything.
On the producing list, only the figs and the citrus get any protection, and they live outside most of the year. I'm putting figs in the ground next year to see how they do.
I have a 22' geodesic dome greenhouse (see the link in my sig, below) and 20-40' unheated hoop house for spring starts.
Red mulberry trees grow everywhere as weeds here, with the birds dropping the seeds. My mulberries (except for one big stump that keeps coming back) are all improved varieties with larger fruit. They are carefree, really, and well adapted to the area, as long as they get enough water. The fruit is most like a blackberry, I think, though less tart. The one with white fruit has no tartness at all.
