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 The Pitchfork’s survival projects 

Pitchfork © 2010
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Introduction

Here’s the first survival project chosen to present, among several – buying blueberry bushes and planting blueberry bushes. 

This survival project, as with all the others, is a survival experiment; Pitchfork and The Missus do not raise blueberries for a living – until a few weeks ago, not at all. 

So

What’s involved?  What to look for?  Where to buy?  How to handle?  What to expect?  What to avoid?

Pro vita sua 

These sustenance projects are about a survival commitment to stay-put.

The inspiration to grow potatoes as herewith came from Backward farming, the urban homestead; http://backyardfarming.blogspot.com/2008/01/backyard-potatoes.html

Let’s do it

• Why blueberries?

• Pitchforks blueberry bush buying and blueberry bush planting guidelines

  • Work with the pros

  • Pay attention to what you’re told to do

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  Update:  December 2010.  Abandoned further interest to buy and raise more than this first endeavor, sufficiently burdened by -

• Poor condition on arrival (badly packed or handled, causing the loss of one bush and, seemingly, weakness in others for less than abundant moisture)

• Field loss of 4 more of the 12 delivered, total 5 gone-for of 12 delivered

• Slowness of growth to abundant bearing

• Unanswered email inquiry to the growers, apparently among the better in their biz