Blueberry bushes are acid lovers... so I gave mine some Holly-tone to lower the PH of the soil. Then I heeded Amy Matthew's advice over at http://www.heirloombroccoli.com/ and added some coffee grounds around the plant as well, to "act as a neurotoxin to baby slugs who then don’t reach adulthood." I know that coffee has the same effect on me, so why not.
Used some of the Earth-tone organic insecticidal soap to take on those golden tortoise beetles, which didn't seem to work because we saw two of them having sex underneath one of the leaves no more than an hour after I sprayed it.
Then I fed all the plants with some organic Neptune's Harvest fish emulsion.
My garden crap.
Soil test says 5.5 ph, pretty ideal for blueberries.
New rain gauge (impulse buy).
Izzy never stops wanting to play frisbee.
I bought this potjie pot from an awesome
Amish market way out in Bainbridge, Ohio last weekend.
It is sitting on what will soon become the new firepit out back.
Besides the chewed up sweet potato plants, everything else is looking pretty healthy and on track.
2 comments:
Your garden is lucky to have such a fun-lovin' caretaker as to encourage recreational substance abuse! Great idea to do a soil test around the blueberries. The coffee grounds are actually more acidic than many store-bought soil amendments, so unless you discover (through occasional soil testing) that your soil is losing its acidity, or you notice the leaves turning yellow, you shouldn't have to give it any more grounds this year, based on the research I've done. Rock on!
Thanks for the info, Amy!
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