A good deal of my photography since I displaced myself slightly to the north of the city that was my home has been devoted to documenting what lives and grows here. The fruit blossoms and the fruit are constant subjects and since they are right outside the door I get to practice on them all I want.
I was told that there were early, mid, and late summer varieties of blueberries (and there are a lot of varieties).and that two bushes of each should supply blueberries through a good part of the summer. They were disappointing for a couple of years but had more berries each year. I plan to keep adding more bushes until I have to freeze tons of berries. Anyway, stick with them for a few years. They like acid soil and stuff like peat moss. They are also pretty bushes!
Great idea. I haven’t tried that before.
I really should do an update on this post. One that has a photo with it even. I can’t edit this one for some reason but I think I will do an update. I was relying too much on visual aids in my posts and the pictures are not reliable here. I have moved. I said to the new people to not give up on all the blueberry and huckleberry bushes I had added. I hope those bushes are still alive.
I SIMPLY ADORE BLUEBERRIES AND CAN EAT TONNES OF THEM BLUEBERRY YOGHURT IS A LONGTIME FAVORITE WITH ME thank YOU SEEM TO BE RETURNING TO VIRILY
Yes, I agree with you about blueberries and sometimes I put frozen blueberries with yogurt making an ice cream substitute. I am going to be around for a while – I take time away from the computer every once in a while – it’s good to be back.
hahaha welcome back then do you farm blueberries?
I grow them but I’m not really a farm. I just kept adding different bushes to my yard and plan to keep doing so.
Love blueberries,are very healthy!
Yes, they are also a favorite of mine and I won’t rest until I have to freeze tons of them each year. I’ll keep adding bushes. 🙂
Here in Montana, we have more huckleberries than blueberries, and there is a huckleberry festival that is held in a town about 40 miles away from here. The problem with this year is that after an unusually harsh and snowy winter (good for the huckleberries), we’ve had a sustained blast of heat and dry weather, with temps getting to 90-110 F daily for the past two weeks. The wild huckleberries are tiny this year and many are drying up on the bush before ripening. They are also ripening several weeks early. Around here, berry time is usually late August and there are already people out in the woods picking huckleberries. (Our two blueberry bushes in our yard have been growing well but didn’t produce at all this year, from the heat.)
I also added some native huckleberries to my yard. They are easier than the blueberries as they are native. I have high hopes for them in the future. I understand that they are best eaten fresh or should be frozen because they don’t keep well but I plan to freeze lots of them hopefully. You may be able to find a blueberry variety that would grow where you are. People didn’t used to grow them here much because they take some effort. Mine are doing better each year.
I have two blueberry bushes, but the blueberries dried up on the bush before they had the chance to ripen, even though I keep them watered well. The sun has just been too intense. I plan on mulching them heavily with sphagnum moss (mostly to maintain a low pH and to keep the weeds at bay), but I’ve missed out on both harvests this year.
You might try shading them with a translucent cloth or make a temporary little fence that shades them for like half the day in the middle. I struggled with mine but now I’m glad I stuck with them. Someone told me that pine needles are good mulch. I feed mine acid loving plant food. I originally planted them in 50 percent peat moss. Good luck with them.
I gotta learn a lot from you bro “)
Thanks sun. Cheers.
I wanna taste blue berries, let me try
Yes , you should try them. my favorite berries. 🙂
creo que son de la misma familia aqui se recojen a finales de agosto y principios de septiembre
el patxaran es la vevida tipica de euskadi jeje
Tuve que buscar “el patxaran” – se ven igual, excepto la mía son pequeños arbustos y no árboles. También hago vodka con sabor con ellos de la manera que los noruegos hacen. Te estoy diciendo esto porque también encontré este divertido video. – https://youtu.be/4BVBvnNS_9s
si asi se hacen mira si tienes por hay, si estarias mas cerca te mandaba una botellita jeje
No los tenemos. Nunca supe esto. ¿Pero no las comes? El licor que hago con vodka es condimentado dejándolo en la viuda por sólo 7 a 14 días. Aprendí algo, pero no puedo probarlo. Jajaja
mira a ver son arbustos pequeños los hay en el monte aqui nacen salvajes nuestro clima es suave igual es eso
Prunus spinosa – Fue introducido aquí. Lo encontré. Tal vez no sea difícil de probar después de todo. – https://www.plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=PRSP
Gracias
Blueberries are great food. Good for you. Excellent post.
Thanks Pamela – I do like most all berries but blueberries are a favorite.
very nice!
Thanks so much. Cheers 🙂
There’s a wonderful blueberry farm if you ever visit Swellendam in South Africa, where you can pick pails of the fruit :). They cost about twice what strawberries do around here!
It is most economical to pick them in season and freeze some. Here there are no farms that grow them nearby but if I go to the state next door there are many blueberry farms.
I’ve never really tried blue berries !
I didn’t think they grew where I live until I investigated. They are nice looking bushes for landscaping. It’s not completely easy to grow them here but I’m glad I did try. I recommend them if there are varieties that grow where you are.
I love blueberries in just about anything and all by themselves too!
I did buy a couple of bushes, but they were very small and hardly had any roots, they never lasted till the next season sad to say, but will try again because they are one of my favourite fruits!
I bought really small plants from a local farm the first year. And the ones I’ve added since were very small also. the cost less than $5. It takes a while. A more instant gratification can be had by buying more mature plants for around $30 and after the years I spent I think that’s not such a bad option.
Wonderful!
Yes, it’s very nice to have some but I need many many more>
Enjoy them. They are very useful for sight. And with me they are very expensive. How do you see 4 euros 200 grams.
One of my criteria for garden choices is to try to grow the more expensive things and not to put as much effort or resources into inexpensive and very available things.
Not quite ready yet here. But I’m waiting! We’ve got strawberries now.
Yeah, it’s always strawberries, blueberries and then blackberries here.
I love it
Thank you Olga.
They are beautiful. Enjoy!
Thanks Carol.
I just love blueberries this time of year.
Me too. They are probably the addition I made here that I’ve put the most effort and money into. I also am adding some native huckleberries this year and they should be easier since they are natives.