Today let’s learn about the difference between a fruit bud and a leaf bud. There are 2 types of buds on a blueberry plant. The sharp pointed tips of the leaf bud are now starting to peek their tips out.
The fruit buds which are more red in the photo below, are preparing to open to allow honey bees to pollinate them.It’s blossom will produce several berries. At this stage, we are about six weeks from first fruit. It’s also time to give the berries a little fertilizer to help them with the energy they will need to produce all those berries and bush growth. We have two more does who will kid in early April. We will have cute baby goat kids pictures in the next newsletter. Thanks for joining us in our farming journey. Dave and Danielle |
Once the berries arrived we set the plants in the ground every three feet in our 200’ rows. This is where family and friends come in! We all work together setting out the potted plants and begin setting them in the ground. The soil is very mellow at this point and it is easy to open a hole and seat the plants in the holes. Once the plants have been planted, we come back and mulch them in with pine bark, pine chips or what is available that is acid based.This spring we will have berries from the original 150 plants to pick this year!! However, the newly planted berries will require us to remove all the blossoms so they don’t produce any fruit this year. This will allow all the energy to put new growth into the plant so the bushes will be bigger to make fruit next year. Below is what we are hoping for.
We are excited to share with you along our journey! Come visit us starting the middle of May to Middle of July for Blueberries and then black berries from July through August. Raspberries will be August – September.