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Large, high-bush blueberries can be almost as big around as a nickel, and still be delicious. At least the dozen or so bushes we used to have were. The key is
by douche 10y ago
Large, high-bush blueberries can be almost as big around as a nickel, and still be delicious. At least the dozen or so bushes we used to have were. The key is that you can't pick them when they are merely blue, you have to wait for them to actually ripen and get to a dark purple, almost black. Berries that would be considered ripe if they were low-bush berries will be so sour you can't eat them. Commercial berries are picked wildly unripe, green or just starting to pinken.
- tomkinstinch 10y agoAre the high-bush blueberries you're talking about commercially propagated cultivars, or wild? Ours are native/wild, and none of ours grow that large. The fact that commercial berries are picked too early is definitely a factor in why store-bought ones are so bland (like tomatoes, and so many other crops that have to be shipped).
- douche 10y agoProbably half are commercial bushes we bought from Agway - no idea what strain they are. The others are older, older than I am, anyway, and who knows what they are...