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RE: Early spring garden update with blueberries, and root vegetables
I’m not sure the variety of my blueberry plants but they don’t produce like that!! WOW!! Plus I only have 2 and they are pretty small still.
School me on this scrap planting deal you got going on. I know potatoes can be just cut and basically tossed in the ground. I have a whole box of beets and carrots and 28 strawberry plants. But I have never planted any of them using that scrap method. All from seeds.
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I think my bees helped with my blueberry production this year, I had so many bees pollinating them this year it was amazing. I set up homes for them near by so they go back and forth between my flowers and their homes. If your plant is only a year or two old it may be a few more years before they really produce.
So during the winter with the freezes going on outside I would save my carrot scraps. When I roast carrots I cut off the leafy end with an inch or so of carrot meat on it. Then place them in a shallow dish of water by the window and a few weeks later I got leaves growing. Then a week later I got roots coming out of the cut carrot scraps.
Heres a link to a post of me doing this: https://steemit.com/vegetables/@solominer/growing-food-from-scraps-update-xmpqflsi
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https://steemit.com/plants/@solominer/growing-food-scraps-late-march-update-rmcotcjt
My radish did not seem to do well from scraps, just my carrots and potatoes as you mentioned. Yeah I cut a sprouted potato into a bunch of pieces, let them dry out for a day or two and then put them in the ground.. Was real easy.
Oh cool, I had a bunch of strawberry plants but then they just disappeared one year. They were taking over the area and I really loved them. It was hard getting to them before the ants ate them though.