I received a message yesterday from Trehane Nursery. I bought some blueberry plants from them last year. The message was about pruning blueberries, and included a couple of links to YouTube videos, made by Trehane, showing how to do it. So I watched the videos a few times, and guess what I did today.
Yes, today I ventured out into the garden, secateurs in hand, and attacked all my blueberry bushes. Well I didn't exactly attack them, I pruned them really, but I'm sure they thought they were under attack. It looks so easy on a video doesn't it ? But when you come to do it yourself, it's a bit daunting. Anyway I persevered, couldn't help thinking that I was cutting off a lot of fruiting branches though. Still, job done. I'll find out in the spring if I've done it correctly.
There was a large rainbow in the sky this morning, yes that's it in the photo. Remember that saying:
'A rainbow at morn,
Fair weather all gone.'
It was right again. We've had showers all day.
Beautiful photo of the rainbow in winter.
ReplyDeleteWe love showers and rainbows here as both are quite rare.
We tend to take rainbows for granted here, as we see them quite often. I've not found a pot of gold at the end of one of them yet though.
DeleteWhat a conscientious nursery! Could you send me a link to the video?
ReplyDeleteBrilliant customer service, and the plants are excellent quality too.
DeletePruning is scary, but like our hair, it will grow back and I'm sure the bushes are much stronger and healthier.
ReplyDeleteI hope so, and if I've done it wrong, I can always learn from my mistakes for next year.
DeleteWell, I didn't know blueberries had to be pruned. Good job on getting out there and just doing it. Pruning is the scariest job of gardening, I think!
ReplyDeleteThis is the first year I've pruned them properly, just used to cut off any dead bits before. I just hope it works.
DeleteCzyli przysłowia mówi prawdę : tęcza rano, później deszcz. Ale i tak zdjęcie tęczy piękne. Pozdrawiam. *** So proverb tells the truth: a rainbow in the morning, then rain. But still photo of a beautiful rainbow. Yours.
ReplyDeleteA rainbow in the morning means the sun must be in the East, and the rain cloud in the West. As we get most of our rain from the West, this is why the saying works.
DeleteI used to grow blueberries until a very helpful teenager with a wheelbarrow destroyed them while mulching the garden. Now I don't have the room for them. Yours will probably be fabulous this spring thanks to their haircut. :o)
ReplyDeleteI'll keep my fingers crossed for your blueberries. I'm always a bit daunted by it even when I follow instructions.
ReplyDeleteI'm impressed that the nursery remind you when to do the pruning and "how". The one we bought our fruit cage from always remind us to take the net off. Just as well or I would forget!