How to Grow a Blueberry Bush

[chickadoodles]

Quote: That's a deal!

 

[Highcotton]

Those are nice looking potatoes. I need to look into growing some like that.
Tomatoes in pots is a great idea. We have a fungus that get them here in California. I starts with brown leaves at the base of the pland.

Ron the potatoes should do well for you in the winter. Carrots do well here in the winter. I plant around Labor Day. Carrots are cold hardy and they have a long growing season. Also cool season crops like cabbage, broccoli, kale and turnips are fall and winter crops here. You can also take advantage of your rainy season.

 

[Highcotton]

I tried growing potatoes here without any success I tried growing them in pots and in the ground I just cant get them to grow.

When do you plant them Chickadoodles?

 

[chickadoodles]

Quote: We tried in the early spring when we planted out other garden vegies.

 

[vehve]

Well, our onions were a bust, too wet in the box for them. Only got to eat maybe 8 scallions. The tater towers have not liked this heatwave either, and I noticed when harvesting the first one after they started dying, that we had not mixed our soil properly. There were completely dry spots with peat, and nicely moist spaces with black soil in there. We only got about 4kg from one tower (about 9 lbs for you metricly challenged folks

). We picked our currants too, got about 1 liter (quart) of red ones, and 2 liters of white ones. Pretty good from two bushes that had moved here last fall, and had been pillaged by birds who had taken half the berries. The white currant was very old and quite frankly looked to be dying when we picked it up, but it was free so we decided to try anyway. It has been growing a lot of new branches this year. And the red currant took quite a beating when we split Karins colleagues overgrown bush in two and took half of it here. I had to take an axe to it's roots to get it apart, and we got a pretty small clump of roots with it. But it seems to be recovering pretty well too. Many new branches in that one as well.

Our beans have started to grow, and the cherry tomatoes are going to give a nice harvest if they have time to mature. It's a race against mother nature with those.




I also have a chili plant and a egg plant, we started with 6 of each, but most of them didn't survive. I was thinking these were going to be a bust too, but now they have started to grow what looks like the beginnings of flowers. Might still get some chilis and an eggplant this year. Adding some compost to them yesterday has really made them grow overnight. My avocado seed experiment is alive too.



And the Jerusalem artichokes are about 1½ meters by now, or 5 feet. I expect a bountiful harvest from those. It's really freaky how you can take two half kilo bags of veggies from the store, throw them in plastic tubs filled with soil, and actually get something to grow in them.


What's going on in your gardens? (I want pictures to drool over too)

 

[Arielle]

Yesterday morning, the kids and I picked about 1 quart of wild blueberries from high bush bushes. I realized how pruning can really help keep the berries in reach when I could not get those at 7 feet without pulling over the 1" branch and badly damaging the trunk. Left those berries for the birds.

Kids were thrilled by their reward of so many berries and excitely show their dad when they arrived home.

Potatos need more hilling up here. THey are falling over and the white flowers are in full bloom.

THe squash are not likely to produce much-- one area is just flowering now. THose are summer squash so the possibillity of stir frying a few is . . . . possible; having well ripen winter squash to put into storage is not likely.

THe overnight temps feel colder than ususal here. ANd with the late start . .the growing season will be shorter than usual. Do plan to get more peas planted though for a fall crop.

Son showed me where the wild grapes have good bunches of round green fruits-- should ripen about end of August here. Those are the dates I remember picking the wild grapes here, the week before school started . . .will see if my memory is correct. lol

 

[chickadoodles]

Felix your plants look wonderful and Arielle sounds like you are getting some good things harvested.
My garden plants have all died except for 2 melon plants that are trying to hold on with two small round balls on them. Hopefully I will get at least on of the cantaloupe.

 

[Arielle]

CHickadoodles is the hot dry season in your area??

Forgot to mention: tHe wild blackberries are coming in now here.

 

[chickadoodles]

Yes very hot and dry. This week we are in the mid 80's but it is to late for my vegies.

 

[Highcotton]

Yesterday morning, the kids and I picked about 1 quart of wild blueberries from high bush bushes. I realized how pruning can really help keep the berries in reach when I could not get those at 7 feet without pulling over the 1" branch and badly damaging the trunk. Left those berries for the birds.

Kids were thrilled by their reward of so many berries and excitely show their dad when they arrived home.

Potatos need more hilling up here. THey are falling over and the white flowers are in full bloom.

THe squash are not likely to produce much-- one area is just flowering now. THose are summer squash so the possibillity of stir frying a few is . . . . possible; having well ripen winter squash to put into storage is not likely.

THe overnight temps feel colder than ususal here. ANd with the late start . .the growing season will be shorter than usual. Do plan to get more peas planted though for a fall crop.

Son showed me where the wild grapes have good bunches of round green fruits-- should ripen about end of August here. Those are the dates I remember picking the wild grapes here, the week before school started . . .will see if my memory is correct. lol

We had a record low of 61 F here. The muscadines ripen after Labor Day here. The potatoes have been harvesetd since May here.