rss feedThis year, in the Olympic spirit, we’re cheering for blueberries (two, really)
With the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics in Canada, I know that many athletes are pining their hopes on gold.
My family and I are with them in spirit. But we’re rooting for blue – as in the berry.
Why?
Well, you can’t eat a gold medal.
But home-grown blueberries are a delicious addition to a smoothie on a hot, summer day.
We also just planted two blueberry bushes in our yard.
In the past, we’ve had some pretty good success with growing vegetables in our yard.
Our neighbor, Rob, is a master in the gardening and growing world and has shared garlic stems and pumpkins with us in the past.
We bought these berry plants at Costco in South Seattle – the same place where we’ve purchased big bags of jasmine rice from Thailand – because, well, I thought it would be a fun project.
My son used a small shovel and helped plant the berries. He also studied the pictures that you see hanging from the blueberries in these photos.
My wife and I know he’ll have fun watching them grow and plucking them when they’re ready.
They apparently are packed with vitamins. The Telegraph recently noted the value of blueberries, as well, calling them a superfruit.
There’s even a U.S. Highbrush Blueberry Council.
A sign of the times: After I typed in blueberry for a Google search, the type of smart phone that I use came up in the results.
It’s raining in our area, as I type this post. So, I hope the water will help the berries take root and sprout up as fast as they can.
We have two types of berries: The Bluecrop Northern Highbrush and the Darrow Northern Highbrush.
Um, no, I don’t know the difference between the two. I just know they are berries.
As we know, it’s always been – and always will be – about the berry.
Let the Games begin!
