My blueberry plant is fruiting well. I seem to be picking the
ripe berries every couple of day, but that is not doing my back
much good!

Do buleberries stay ripe on the plants for a week or so (like
currants) or do they go squashy and bad (like raspberries)? I
would rathr only pick once week for a longer time, than several
short periods.





--
Roger T

700 ft up in Mid-Wales

On Sat, 22 Aug 2015 19:27:39 +0100, Roger Tonkin
wrote:

My blueberry plant is fruiting well. I seem to be picking the
ripe berries every couple of day, but that is not doing my back
much good!

Do buleberries stay ripe on the plants for a week or so (like
currants) or do they go squashy and bad (like raspberries)? I
would rathr only pick once week for a longer time, than several
short periods.

My blueberries were finished a month ago. They do stay ripe but not
squashy for some time. I've found how well they stay ecible in the
fridge for ages.
I don't know what variety mine is but the plant has grown tall over
the years with woody stems and the fruit is at chest height.
I guess though, that if you leave them on too long the birds may get
them. Last year I left mine a bit too long, and found the whole plant
had been stripped overnight. I hope it was birds and not " 2-legged
rats". The plant is right outside my kitchen window in full view of
the road, and I cannot imagine anyone standing there picking every
berry but I have never seen a bird on it at any other time.

On 22/08/2015 19:27, Roger Tonkin wrote:
My blueberry plant is fruiting well. I seem to be picking the
ripe berries every couple of day, but that is not doing my back
much good!

Do buleberries stay ripe on the plants for a week or so (like
currants) or do they go squashy and bad (like raspberries)? I
would rathr only pick once week for a longer time, than several
short periods.

If they are not netted round here they get eaten by the birds as they
gain colour - long before they are ripe enough for humans. YMMV

I prefer picking a few as and when needed. But they keep pretty well on
the plant and will just drop off when they become absolutely ripe.

--
Regards,
Martin Brown

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says...

My blueberry plant is fruiting well. I seem to be picking the
ripe berries every couple of day, but that is not doing my back
much good!

Do buleberries stay ripe on the plants for a week or so (like
currants) or do they go squashy and bad (like raspberries)? I
would rathr only pick once week for a longer time, than several
short periods.

Thanks for the replies, I'll leave them for a week or so and
see what they are like.

I lost a lot off an early plant to the birds, who somehow
managed to find ways into the net that I could not. I've now
put a second net draped over he plant, and also hung CD's on
the netting, and I seem to be wining!

I'm freezeing a lto of ours, as I've found they defrost well
and you wouldn't know they've been frozen.

--
Roger T

700 ft up in Mid-Wales

"Roger Tonkin" wrote

says...

My blueberry plant is fruiting well. I seem to be picking the
ripe berries every couple of day, but that is not doing my back
much good!

Do buleberries stay ripe on the plants for a week or so (like
currants) or do they go squashy and bad (like raspberries)? I
would rathr only pick once week for a longer time, than several
short periods.

Thanks for the replies, I'll leave them for a week or so and
see what they are like.

I lost a lot off an early plant to the birds, who somehow
managed to find ways into the net that I could not. I've now
put a second net draped over he plant, and also hung CD's on
the netting, and I seem to be wining!

I'm freezeing a lto of ours, as I've found they defrost well
and you wouldn't know they've been frozen.


It may have been mice not birds, the little bs even climb my cherry trees
and when we had redcurrants I used to find little piles of them under
cabbage and rhubarb leaves etc, hidden for later.
--
Regards. Bob Hobden.
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In article ,
says...

"Roger Tonkin" wrote

says...

My blueberry plant is fruiting well. I seem to be picking the
ripe berries every couple of day, but that is not doing my back
much good!

Do buleberries stay ripe on the plants for a week or so (like
currants) or do they go squashy and bad (like raspberries)? I
would rathr only pick once week for a longer time, than several
short periods.

Thanks for the replies, I'll leave them for a week or so and
see what they are like.

I lost a lot off an early plant to the birds, who somehow
managed to find ways into the net that I could not. I've now
put a second net draped over he plant, and also hung CD's on
the netting, and I seem to be wining!

I'm freezeing a lto of ours, as I've found they defrost well
and you wouldn't know they've been frozen.


It may have been mice not birds, the little bs even climb my cherry trees
and when we had redcurrants I used to find little piles of them under
cabbage and rhubarb leaves etc, hidden for later.

Thats interesting, as I saw what I thought was a mouse quite
near the net, and put down bait for it, which went quickly and
is still being taken, but quite slowly now. I did not expect
mice to climb the bushes, and certainly not had a problem with
the redcurrants, which are in the same net, but matured
earlier.

What made me think it was birds was that I kept finding
thrurshes and blackbirds in the net, who could find their way
in somehow, but not out!

--
Roger T

700 ft up in Mid-Wales