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Our First Blueberries

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Last spring we planted two blueberry bushes. Although, we are quite impatient people and would love to have immediate returns we were really not anticipating having any blueberries this year. So we were ecstatic when we saw how well they were growing this year and saw them putting out blooms. Each bush was a different variety and one of them was about a week ahead of the other with blooms and the blueberries ripening. To our dismay the birds picked the first bush clean before we even knew what happened! But Jon put bird netting over the other blueberry bush along with our other berries and we were able to have our first small harvest of blueberries. We had just enough to eat fresh and some for blueberry pancakes. Two more times we have picked a small handful such as this. The rest we have been just eating fresh and throwing in smoothies with some other fruits. How blessed we are to be able to have our own fresh fruit, even if it is only in small handfuls.

Our First Handful of Blueberries Ever!

Bird Netting for Berries

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There is nothing more disheartening than having your berries be almost ripe one day, and completely wiped out by birds the very next day.  It is amazing how fast birds can pick an entire berry bush clean.  The simple solution is to net your berry bushes to keep the birds from getting to your precious berries.

We recently purchased Bird Block Netting netting for our berry bushes and fruit trees.  There are many types and brands of netting available, and I am not saying the other brands will not work as well.  This is just the brand we purchased due to the price and the size (we are rather cheap).

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