As some of my readers know, my husband Charlie is a master gardener. In fact when we married in 1988 the neighbors wasted no time telling me how he had improved our yard! Before that they had been very forgiving of the single mother(me) failing at the most basic yard duties including mowing, weeding, trimming and planting.
In our Connecticut home he cultivates a 30 plant blueberry patch with several varieties of high bush plants. This week he has been outside every day harvesting gallons of berries. We actually have a freezer just for the blueberries and later the bounty of tomatoes he grows. He freezes most of the berries, but a good amount go to friends and neighbors.
And of course down the road will be the famous peach blueberry pie. For those who don’t know, when we were first dating I mentioned once having a recipe for that combination. He wrote the newspaper asking them to search their archives for it. They did and I have treasured the recipe ever since. I just have to wait for the perfect timing of overripe peaches and just ripe berries. That will be soon, I imagine, with the heat wave we’re having.
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Wonderful. They are beautiful, and I imagine even better baked in a pie!
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I also love a recipe for blueberry bread pudding. If I find it I will have to make it and show you.
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Yes! Sounds delicious!
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How marvellous!
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I love that his gardening love rewards me too!
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My mouth is watering at the thought!
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I keep nibbling every time I walk past one of his bowls!
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That harvesting is the hardest work it seems
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Charlie, unllike me, likes the meditative quality of picking them.
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Blueberries are my wife’s favourite, and she had them every day with hot oatmeal and milk. ( called porridge here) Blueberries can be grown here, but they tend to be small berries. Most of those sold in the shops are the larger berries, imported from various countries such as Morocco and Spain.
Best wishes, Pete.
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I didn’t know that about importing them. The wild blueberries in Maine are much smaller too. Perhaps that is the variety that grows there.
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Oh, when I see a bowl of blueberries my heart skips a beat!
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Once again, if you were closer we’d share.
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Those blueberries look delicious. I need some of Charlie’s peaches, as they don’t grow well in New England.
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We haven’t had success with peaches, but a farm down the road grows two varieties. There are so many micro climates here that it is hard to predict. Our yard is a little colder than some in the same predicted zone.
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That’s quite interesting. The farm with the peaches might be a sunnier spot.
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They look delicious. And the pie too.
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I just saw a pick yourself farm selling them for $4.85 a pound. I guess we are rich!
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Oh summer ☀️ I suppose it will come again here in NZ 😉
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