Blueberries

Since moving to Virginia, we haven’t had a lot of success with our gardens and getting things to grow. In fact, it has been pretty dismal for us. But this year we’re trying something different - blueberry bushes! We found a pack of four different varieties, which produce throughout the summer, and yesterday we put them in the ground where we used to plant our squirrel feeders - uh, I mean, tomatoes. We have a raspberry bush in the same area that does pretty well - hopefully the blueberries will prosper there. We got them in the ground yesterday, so now we’ll see . . . I’m dreaming of some fresh blueberry pie, but what will probably happen is that if they grow, what the birds don’t eat my children will eat right off the bush! (That’s what happens to the raspberries.) That’s okay - at least they will be growing.