Hello, Steemit. It's been a while, but I'm back. Things are progressing on the homestead. Yesterday's project was getting blueberries planted.
Blueberries like an acidic soil so I used barrels the keep from leaching and having to fertilizer more often.
I used bark, wood shavings, wood chips, and saw dust that I got from a neighbor's project. Also pine needles I collected from the woods. Filled the barrels halfway with this mixture and put a layer of peat moss.
Then filled with woods chips I collected from one of the country roads, where the County was cutting trees back from power lines.
I bought 6 varieties of blueberries for cross pollination. There supposed to be a better yield with cross pollination. I'm looking forward to this harvest.
Blueberries sell for criminally high prices around here, because they're a fad. I hate that :( Best of luck with your patch! Oh and welcome back!
Good to see you posting again.
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Yes, please.
Hope you have amazing success with those blueberries @tedgoodwin! Ours don't do well - actuallly they keep dying - on our South African homestead
Sorry to hear that.
Awesome
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Good luck, I dug my blueberries out and now I'm trying haskaps. So far much better success.
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