How to Grow a Blueberry Bush

[chickadoodles]

After looking at a number of websites that well "fruit trees" I have noticed some definitely put a great deal into the descriptions and others skim the basics. So far WIllis has the greatest detail on all the berries and fruit. Not meaing you have to purchase from Willis, but just get the deeper description from them and apply it to a named fruit from another source.

Chokecherry is very tart. CHerries are usually listed as sour or sweet so that is easy. Beyond that I am useless.

I did a lot of reading on stark bros and thought they too had supper detail on the flavor of the berries. ANd noted if they could be eaten out of hte hand or needed to be cookwed with sugar. .

Thanks Arielle. I will look over the Willis and Stark bros. websites.

 

[vehve]

I am in Alabama, USA and I would love to get my hands on some of that greenery! But likely it would not grow here.....

lol

I took a look at the prices for the stuff, it's 18,50€ per square meter, including VAT (24%) and delivery (In Finland). Minimum purchase is 100 sqm. In the installation pictures it looks like they just put it on sand in some places, so if you find a spot where you don't get too much direct sunlight and can keep it wet enough, it might work. Of course, getting it over the pond from here might be a bit tricky. I saw a garden decoration show where they used the stuff, the harvesting looked pretty funny. They just take it from a forest, saw a 3x4 foot piece with a chainsaw and lift it up. Then they just dump it to it's new location.

Here's a pic of our winter views (to promote our small country as a possible tourist destination

):

This is taken in January, a bit before sunset at 2:40pm on a dog walk. Kiusa, our lab, is admiring the view.

 

[chickadoodles]

I took a look at the prices for the stuff, it's 18,50€ per square meter, including VAT (24%) and delivery (In Finland). Minimum purchase is 100 sqm. In the installation pictures it looks like they just put it on sand in some places, so if you find a spot where you don't get too much direct sunlight and can keep it wet enough, it might work. Of course, getting it over the pond from here might be a bit tricky. I saw a garden decoration show where they used the stuff, the harvesting looked pretty funny. They just take it from a forest, saw a 3x4 foot piece with a chainsaw and lift it up. Then they just dump it to it's new location.

Here's a pic of our winter views (to promote our small country as a possible tourist destination

):

This is taken in January, a bit before sunset at 2:40pm on a dog walk. Kiusa, our lab, is admiring the view.

Thank you Vehve it is lovely I would love to come visit your country one day. Beautiful landscape. Looks very similar to Alabama with out the snow. lol
Thank you for the info on how to extract and replant the greenery. While it is very amazing greenery I will have to be content with our grass as we do not have much forest on our land. I am surrounded by catfish ponds and cow pastures here not many people just cows and chickens and dogs. lol

 

[vehve]

Thank you Vehve it is lovely I would love to come visit your country one day. Beautiful landscape. Looks very similar to Alabama with out the snow. lol
Thank you for the info on how to extract and replant the greenery. While it is very amazing greenery I will have to be content with our grass as we do not have much forest on our land. I am surrounded by catfish ponds and cow pastures here not many people just cows and chickens and dogs. lol

Sounds pretty idyllic to me. The pic I posted was from last winter, we haven't had that little snow here in many years. Usually there should be a lot more of the stuff. We are sadly still surrounded by people (and chickens and dogs, but those are fun), but maybe in a few years it's time to continue with the dream and move to a more private setting. For the time being though, this place sort of offers the best of both worlds. I live by a small forest, with larger ones close by, but it's only a two minute drive to the grocery store, or 25 minutes to the center of Helsinki.

 

[chickadoodles]

This is what I wake up to in the mornings. It's a cloudy day expecting rain.

 

[vehve]

This is what I wake up to in the mornings. It's a cloudy day expecting rain.

Not bad at all, looks pretty flat though. I need a bit of height differences to be happy. We're having unusually cold and rainy weather here too, but apparently it should warm up in a few weeks again.

 

[chickadoodles]

Sounds pretty idyllic to me. The pic I posted was from last winter, we haven't had that little snow here in many years. Usually there should be a lot more of the stuff. We are sadly still surrounded by people (and chickens and dogs, but those are fun), but maybe in a few years it's time to continue with the dream and move to a more private setting. For the time being though, this place sort of offers the best of both worlds. I live by a small forest, with larger ones close by, but it's only a two minute drive to the grocery store, or 25 minutes to the center of Helsinki.

I wondered why there was only a small amount of snow on the ground. I lived in Minnesota where the snow would get 4-6 feet deep at times.
And I was born and raised in Southern California. There were cow pastures and dairies all over the place when I was a kid. Now there are hardly and trees or grass anywhere. It's all concrete and asphalt and skyscrapers smog and no sun.
Now we have two towns fairly close about 25 min. east or west of us. But real shopping is 1 1/2 hrs. from us. But I do love it here.

Your place sounds nice we all have different ideas of the ideal place to live. At least you have the best of both so close to you that is very nice.

Back behind us some is a huge forest and when it rains to much to fast here we have some flooding due to the high water table here.

 

[vehve]

I live in South Finland, here we usually get a couple of feet of snow, due to the coast being so close. 50km north from here you only get about a foot. If you go to Lapland, way up north (above the arctic circle) you get 5-6 feet of snow usually. And no daylight in the winter. And then it's the opposite in summer. In Nuorgam, which is about as north as you can get, the sun went up on May 15th and will set July 29th. Talk about difficult to sleep. Here we at least get 5-6 hours of "dark".

 

[chickadoodles]

I live in South Finland, here we usually get a couple of feet of snow, due to the coast being so close. 50km north from here you only get about a foot. If you go to Lapland, way up north (above the arctic circle) you get 5-6 feet of snow usually. And no daylight in the winter. And then it's the opposite in summer. In Nuorgam, which is about as north as you can get, the sun went up on May 15th and will set July 29th. Talk about difficult to sleep. Here we at least get 5-6 hours of "dark".

Sounds so foreign to me here with a few snow flakes every 10 yrs. lol Heat and humidity is what the south is famous for here in the US. it can get to 110 degrees with 100% humidity. Not sence putting on makeup because the minute you walk out the door is melts off and every afternoon there is usually a heat storm with thunder and lightening and winds kick up and it rains just long enough to make the humidity go up even more. But I do love Alabama.

I would have to buy or make blackout shades if I lived there. to keep my days and nights in check. lol

 

[vehve]

Sounds so foreign to me here with a few snow flakes every 10 yrs. lol Heat and humidity is what the south is famous for here in the US. it can get to 110 degrees with 100% humidity. Not sence putting on makeup because the minute you walk out the door is melts off and every afternoon there is usually a heat storm with thunder and lightening and winds kick up and it rains just long enough to make the humidity go up even more. But I do love Alabama.

I would have to buy or make blackout shades if I lived there. to keep my days and nights in check. lol

You get used to it. I used to work as a security guard at one point doing night shifts, sometimes I went for two weeks without seeing the sun. Not up yet when leaving work, and had already set when i woke up after shifts. That was a bit frustrating. And you sure do get pale.