Here is our aforementioned tiny garden space (at the end of May). It's all filled in now; but I'm putting up this image because the two bushes in the containers are blueberry bushes, and they are not said to work well in Illinois as we have too alkaline a soil. I followed the directions sent by the nursery (the plants came as 3- and 4-year plants) and planted them straight into peat with pine bark mulch on top. There is a third one planted in the ground in a 20 inch wide x 15 inch deep hole of peat only. I also worked a small amount of elemental sulfur into the peat and I've used Holly-Tone to feed the plants. The two in the containers have taken off wonderfully, and the one in the ground while not dying, isn't flourishing either. I may leave it in until the spring, and then if it still looks ho-hum, take it out and put it in a container (which is so easy to control the medium in). I'm planning on plopping the two in containers into holes in the soil (container and all) for the winter, mulch after the ground freezes, and hope to heck they will make it that way. I've been advised this should work. If you see anything wrong with the plan, please let me know.