Friday, March 16, 2012

Science! Who Knew?


Every year I plant innocent little blueberry twigs from Wal Mart or Lowe's, and every year they die.
This year, Becky the science whiz suggested I test the soil to find out if there may be some underlying reason, besides bad blueberry luck, that they weren't able to survive.
She ran the PH test and now I see her point.
So she and I are off to get acidifying fertilizer for the latest attempt at a blueberry patch.

2 comments:

  1. What a smart girl you have! I'm afraid to test my garden beds because I'm pretty sure they're too heavily manured. Wonder how that happened?

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  2. We've never had luck with blueberries. Oh yeah, except one time we planted them and then moved away. they grew fine once we were gone. We still haven't given up.

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