We’ve been having an unusually hot dry summer so I was a little worried our blueberry harvest would be small.
But the bushes are positively laden with fruit.
And in some places, look like grapes.
We did our first picking the other day…
And I see pie in our future.
As well as coffee cake, crumble, lemon blueberry pound cake, buckle and muffins.
If we can beat these little bastards to the berries that is.
No one wants pancakes that squirm.
River's world..... 
So lucky! Your property looks spectacular, wow!
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Good thing we love them.
😊
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Just imagine those caterpillars as the beautiful butterflies they will become — isn’t that outcome worth sacrificing some of your blueberries for? I’m guessing you don’t think so, so here’s a link which you may find useful:
http://ncsmallfruitsipm.blogspot.com/2010/08/what-to-watch-for-caterpillars-in.html
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I think that’s what they are…. we killed as many as we found.
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We have blackberries. They are prickly and need a lot of water. Did I mention they are really prickly?
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I believe you did, yes.
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There was a massive mulberry tree on our Granny’s farm back in my youth, big enough that plenty of siblings and cousins could play under it, so we did. Of course, by the end of the day we would be completely stained purple, much to the chagrin of whichever adult was supposed to supervising us….
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I’ve been baking for days and fear my fingertips are now permanently blue.
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Just asking–do you donate some of the blueberries to the folks who give you all those veggies???
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We used to, but now they have their own bushes. And just so you know… we buy all those veggies.
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the berries look great. I hope you don’t have to share too many.
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River,
So blueberry pancake surprise is out of the question, eh? What kind of worms are those? Do they turn into butterflies or do they stay worms? Shudder! Those blueberries look soooo good! Minus the worms, I mean. Mona
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They’re yellow bellied caterpillars and I’m not going to let them live long enough to find out if they’re butterflies!
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Yum! The berries, not the caterpillars….
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Well, they probably are full of protein..
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🤣😬🤔. I prefer a good steak myself…
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Lucky you! I’m surprised none of your four-legged visitors beat you to them. We have wild huckleberries in the forest here in Idaho, and my dogs love picking them off the shrubs. So do I. But now that I think about it, the deer must not find them tempting or surely we’d not find as many ripe ones as we do. The bears really like them, though 🙂
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Some years the birds virtually strip them but it’s 2020.
😉
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So delicious looking (minus the last picture). This makes me miss the three blueberry bushes we planted on our land in Washington. One season later, we moved to Arizona!
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Bad timing there. It’s like us, we always seem to put brand new tires on a car… and then sell it.
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I’m so jealous right now! I love blueberries and they are pricey here.
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They’re pricey here too which makes ours twice as wonderful!
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Blueberry pie is my favorite pie to make. No coring, peeling… and lots of pectin so the sauce thickens up nicely…
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It is one of the easier ones….. although the lattice crust can be challenging.
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I have a foolproof technique for that: I don’t make a lattice crust…
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Smart move.
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