Yesterday we picked blueberries for the first time this year….beautiful, big, juicy berries and enough for dessert with plenty left over for another time. What a treat!
Ten years ago a group of us cooperatively purchased blueberry plants. We got 8 plants and heeled them in a garden space, not sure where they should live. The next year we made a bed for them and moved them. These are high bush blueberries, two varieties, one that is earlier than the other. The berries generally bloom in July and have berries the last week August.
The birds like blueberries too, and so do honey bees and sadly, Japenese beetles. We use blueberry netting over a frame made with posts. We don’t really like to share the berries with the birds and the beetles. The honey bees the neighboring farmer has placed near the bushes are a welcome addition to our farm.
When I think of blueberries I think of blueberries with sour cream and a sprinkling of brown sugar ~ b lueberry pie, blueberry cobbler, blueberry pancakes, blueberry crisp, and pop em in your mouth as you pick...yum.
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