It’s almost blueberry picking time!
For anyone that remembers the fall of 2009 – we had one of the wettest Octobers – if not the wettest on record, followed by a beautiful November. We have always had good luck with our late fall plantings and decided it was time to get blueberries into our garden. These were planted the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, 2009. I watered them in and applied a 3 inch layer of mulch around them and this spring they started growing as soon as they woke up in early April! The blueberries are abundant!
The lessons that we have learned over the years is that don’t be afraid to try things. Pay attention to what you read – but never be afraid to try something “outside the box”. Most things you read say not to plant berries after September – but I hadn’t gotten it done earlier so I did it quite late. The only “extra” work I had to do was to mulch them. The results speak for themselves!
We carry a nice assortment of blueberries, raspberries, grapes, kiwi, and rhubarb in our small fruit section.
