Wednesday, January 09, 2019

Blueberries

Blueberries taste so sweet when they are from your own garden
My blueberry bush is still tiny, but over the past two weeks whenever I've walked by I have eaten a few blueberries. Today there was a whole handful ready for picking.

Small bushes planted on poor sandy soil can be  surprisingly productive. I planted a loganberry vine 18 months ago. Last summer it bore about 20 fruit but this year it was covered with fruit. I had so many loganberries I made a kilo of them into jam.
Loganberries
Loganberry jam

1 comment:

Liz said...

One of life's pleasures is harvesting one's own fruit and veges - for 3 years we have made crab-apple jelly from our one tree planted 4 years ago. Sadly in Nov last year, the tree was uprooted in a major storm and despite trying to shore it up as it was full of small fruit, it could not be saved.