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How blue are you?

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When we moved to our house in 2002 most of the back yard was waist high fields. Over the years my husband… aka the Lawn Ranger… turned the fields into lawn. And in the middle of that lawn?

Nine high blueberry bushes. (So named because the famously sweet low bush Maine blueberries are literally ankle high.)

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We’ve had good years and bad as far as harvesting goes. Sometimes the birds eat them all, sometimes we have a late frost and they never grow properly.

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Pruning is important but sadly this year we lost two bushes.

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The blossoms smell divine and everywhere there’s a bloom?

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There will be a berry…

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Like this in mid to late August.

Not wanting to miss out on summer pie, the husband and I went to a large nursery and purchased two replacement bushes.

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I was a bit shocked at the sticker price of $49.99 each, but fresh blueberry lemon pound cake with lemon glaze can not be denied.

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Fingers crossed they fruit this year.

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27 thoughts on “How blue are you?”

  4. Blueberries won’t grow where we are, We have Saskatoons which seem to be poor man’s blueberries. The birds eat them every year, they don’t wait for them to turn purple. If we get a handful it is sheer luck!

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      3. For us it’s the sparrows. We used to get hundreds of them. But since the wildfires in 2019 tneir numbers have been reduced greatly. And truth to tell, with the smoke from all the wildfires this year, we have not seen even one sparrow for weeks. Our bird feeder sits unused, except by one lonely grackle. I am afraid for our avian populations.

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  5. We inherited several blueberry bushes with our new property, and Dick even had the foresight to cover them in netting to keep the birds away. They are budding like crazy right now and I’m so excited. Blueberries are just about my favorite fruit.

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