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Maryc · 19-06-2005, 01:22 PM

Me too!!

I only get a few each morning. My bushes are quite young though. I have some that I just planted this year to replace other bushes. THe other bushes were some kind of gooseberry that the nersery guy talked me into buying and I hated the berries. So I dug them out and put in the blueberries that I wanted in the first place. Now I am much happier.

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Originally Posted by Repeating Rifle

in article , Maryc at
wrote on 6/12/05 1:25 PM:

My Blueberries are starting to ripen. I planted them along the fron of
my house as a hedge. The Robin's however are trying to beat me to the
ripe berries. So I have been picking them before they are fully
ripened and letting them ripen in my house. I'm hoping that they will
taste just as good.

For some reason, birds mostly leave my blueberries alone. I live along the
coast of LA. I do find that that last bit of ripening plumps them up and
makes them much sweeter than when they are almost ripe. The variety is
Sharp. I have been picking them for about two months. The individual berries
ripen at different times so that I have to work in the hunter-gatherer mode.

Bill