Maggie's Farm

Up north, we have half a meadow of the lowbush kind naturalized for a hundred years, and many of the wild highbush, but the highbush ones have been sickly in the last couple of years. Not sure if it is acid rain (our part of the state gets the Midwestern industrial airborne ) or some new pest or what. This summer I plan to feed and fuss over them all and see if that helps.

Back home, in our more southerly former salt marsh, have just planted one of the scorned hybrid type as the wild ones do not produce enough in a small area. WE have damp, acid soil here, but the first ones I planted were in the lowest spot which got salt water flooding from a tidal pond which killed them. I fully expect to raise even more fat and healthy birds and squirrels on these blueberries....The squirrels get into the nets, but unfortunately do not strangle in them.