How does your garden grow?

[Sysop]

Thanks, they are still very sweet and juicy, but the flavor isn't quite as strong as some of the smaller varieties but do have a better flavor than many of the larger varieties. I have BlueJay, Patriot, and those are Jubilees.

 

[Larro Darro]

Hey Larro, My wife made your "Buckle" last night with blueberries and it was GOOD!!!! Thanks for the recipe.

Glad you like it. Was it the last one I posted, the Blue Boy? It has a little less sugar and calories than the other.

Larro's Blue Boy
Ingredients
1 cups all-purpose flour
1/3 CUP SUGAR
1 teaspoons baking powder
1/8 teaspoon salt
1/3 CUP butter
1/4 cup milk
1 eggs
1 1/2 cups blueberries, fresh or frozen
1 TABLESPOON SUGAR
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
Directions
Preheat oven 350 degrees and spray a 8-inch baking pan with non stick cooking spray.
Mix flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. Add the butter, milk and egg. Mix for 3 minutes.
Pour batter into the prepared pan, evenly sprinkle the blueberries on top.
In a small bowl, combine the 1 1/2 tablespoons of sugar and cinnamon, then sprinkle over blueberries. Bake 30 to 35 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.

 

[Larro Darro]

Thanks, they are still very sweet and juicy, but the flavor isn't quite as strong as some of the smaller varieties but do have a better flavor than many of the larger varieties. I have BlueJay, Patriot, and those are Jubilees.

Thanks for that info. I'm still in the market for a few more bushes. My store bought plants are Powder Blue, or something like that. Sister potted three kinds for us from her plants. One of those was from store bought bushes, the other two taken from the big berry patch at the old house. Of those, the smaller berries are the sweetest, but I sure like how fast the bucket fills up with the big ones.

 

[KevT]

Glad you like it. Was it the last one I posted, the Blue Boy? It has a little less sugar and calories than the other.

What's the fun in eating if it is healthier??? :laughing:

 

[Larro Darro]

What's the fun in eating if it is healthier??? :laughing:

Three slices instead of two?

 

[TomSeller]

I planted about 10 blueberry bushes one year. The cows got out that same year and munched them down and they never came back. I do like blueberries, so I need to find a better location.

 

[Sysop]

I've accidently knocked some of my baby bushes out cutting grass before. Generally as long as there is some established roots and they get cut off smooth they'll go ahead and heal and take off again the following year.

My biggest fight for the berries is with the birds. This year hasn't been bad as there seems to be enough for everyone...

 

[Larro Darro]

Twenty odd years ago my Daddy planted a few blueberry bushes in front of their house in the edge of Cousin Dee's pines. They have spread over a pretty large area with some really big bushes. Our whole family picks on them, but we try to time it where there is plenty there when Dee comes up from Tampa. The drawback about them {and all the other fruit trees there at the old house} is that out of sight, out of mind. We often don't think to go pick.

 

[Larro Darro]

I guess this is what a blank canvas looks like to the artist. I planted the skips in the Iraqi cucumbers with saved seeds, then did one row of them in the new ground. And a quick Google search of Iraqi cucumbers revealed that what I have is really Armenian cucumbers that just happened to be grown in Iraq. Now I know. The Master Plan was for 6 rows of Pink Eyed Purple Hulls, 12 rows of sweet corn and 3 rows of straight neck squash. The plan worked pretty well, up to a point. And that point was when I mistook the sign stand at the beginning of the peas for the sign stand at the end of the peas. I have my planter set at 18" to lay off rows, then come back and plant every other row so they will be 36" apart. Luckily I decided 4 1/2 feet between the peas and corn was enough, because when I started planting corn, the first 3 rows was between rows of peas. It will be a little tight when they all start coming up. But the good news is I now have 15 rows of corn instead of 12.:confused3:

 

[jix]

I planted a new lawn on June 15th in newly spread topsoil over a scrub lawn, and it rained gently overnight, hooray, I love it when the weather cooperates that way. Now some sunshine, please Our summer here has been very late this year and too cold for good gardening. I will have to continue with veggies from the store, grown way far south, or in a greenhouse that adds minerals to the medium to develop good taste, especially in tomatoes. Store bought tomatoes disappoint me every time. My clever wife will not refrigerate tomatoes from the store. She says that is what makes them so lacking in flavour. I think she has something there, too. Tomatoes are hard to grow here, slugs, caterpillars, cut worms, deer all take a big share, but they don't kill weeds unfortunately.