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 FROZEN BLUEBERRIES?
 I recently sent out an e-mail about pruning, fertilizing and buying  blueberry plants.  Hopefully you were able to prune the plants before the snow fell.  As you can see from the photo above...I was able to prune most of my bushes.  Can you tell which bushes were pruned and not pruned?

Snow covered blueberry plants on Feb. 23, 2011.

For those of you who were interested in planting more bushes,   I failed to mention that you will want to REMOVE all of the flowers the first year of planting.  Doing so will allow the plant to create a stronger root system resulting in larger yields in the years to come.  I know it will be painful to prune off those buds...but in the long run it's worth it.