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Blueberries
Besides Blackberries, it also looks like I’ll have a good amount of blueberries this year. Last year I only had one blueberry and a bird ate it before it turned blue. That’s not what I’d call a successful harvest.
I grew up loving blueberries and would never turn down a slice of homemade blueberry pie. In fact, I wouldn't turn down the less homemade Hostess variety either. My grandparents had a lake house up in the country and I remember picking buckets full of blueberries each summer. And that was using the “one for the bucket, two for me, one more for the bucket, three for me” method of picking. We'd even take the row boat and pick the wild blueberries that would grow around the lake.
So when I bought my house I made sure that I planted my own bushes. I've had blueberry bushes on my property for the last 7 years now. They were well established large bushes until last year when I had to transplant them because of pool/landscaping renovations.
But it looks like they're getting comfortable in their new home, a raised bed in my vegetable garden. As long as I can get out there and put a net over my plants in the next couple of weeks, my family should have it's fill of blueberry muffins, blueberry pancakes, blueberry pie and maybe even enough for my father to make some blueberry wine.
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That's one of the things I love about gardening: if we had any kind of connection to plants as kids, we can grow those plants in our gardens now and relive a little bit of our childhood. That's how I am with lilacs, and it sounds like you have it with your blueberries.
And now, I'm craving some really good blueberry muffins...
One of my goals of planting these berries and my garden in general was to create similar connections for my kids.
Those were the days! Good luck with your blueberries this year.
Last year, we had one blueberry too... same bird ate it.
Kate, yes my kids will love it for about a minute and then they'll move on to something else. They'll be 5 & 3 years old this summer and the attention span isn't there yet. :)
Ottawa, gooseberries sound great! I have a lot of empty space in my new beds. Maybe I'll give them a try.
Steven, be sure they don't slam the door shut the next time you're in there. Sounds a little too Silence of the Lambs for me. :)
We have blueberry bushes ringing the deck and more out in the yard. When the nearby mulberry trees start to peter out, trying to beat the birds to the outlying blueberries are hopeless. We still have a chance at the ones around the deck but the bold catbirds and cowbirds will beat me to the ripe fruit everytime. ;(
Unfortunately there are a couple of bushes in the hinterlands that produce very large good tasting fruit that we get very little of. Oh well, the birds do eat a lot of insects, worms and other pests too.