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Blueberries!!!!

BY: @tedgoodwin | CREATED: March 20, 2019, 3:50 p.m. | VOTES: 12 | PAYOUT: $0.21 | [ VOTE ]

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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.
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Then filled with woods chips I collected from one of the country roads, where the County was cutting trees back from power lines.
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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.

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@offgridlife | March 20, 2019, 11:37 p.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

Awesome

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@pennsif | March 20, 2019, 11:55 p.m. | Votes: 1 | [ VOTE ]

Good to see you posting again.

Would you like to be added to the new Homesteaders & Preppers on Steem list...

  • https://steemit.com/homesteading/@altlife/homesteaders-and-preppers-on-steem-17-march-2019
@tedgoodwin | March 23, 2019, 12:06 a.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

Yes, please.

@edthecanadian | March 21, 2019, 2:59 a.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

Good luck, I dug my blueberries out and now I'm trying haskaps. So far much better success.

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@bobydimitrov | March 21, 2019, 10:24 a.m. | Votes: 2 | [ VOTE ]

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!

@buckaroo | March 22, 2019, 3:09 p.m. | Votes: 1 | [ VOTE ]

Hope you have amazing success with those blueberries @tedgoodwin! Ours don't do well - actuallly they keep dying - on our South African homestead

@tedgoodwin | March 23, 2019, 12:07 a.m. | Votes: 0 | [ VOTE ]

Sorry to hear that.

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