Help Needed on Blueberry Workday!
Brian Choate, FH resident and owner of Gardens of the Galaxy, digs blueberry shoots for propagation.
Saturday, January 31 will be Blueberry Workday in the Forest Heights area, and we need as much help as possible!
We have 27 community blueberry patches to weed, mulch and fertilize, and we’ll be planting three or four new patches. If we have good help again this year, we should finish around 4:30 p.m. and Oglethorpe Garage will give $1 off all drinks to volunteers that evening! (Take and share group pics for proof!)
We’ll meet at 8:30 a.m. in the cul-de-sac of Landor Place towards the front of Forest Heights and split into work teams. Some people will assist Clyde Yates of Hungry Gnome Gardenscapes in planting bushes. Others will work with Brian Choate of Gardens of the Galaxy to build the new, larger enclosures for three healthy patches that are outgrowing their cylindrical cages. And the rest of us will focus on weeding, mulching and fertilizing the older patches.
We’ll plan to take a lunch break from 12:00-1:00 and then reconvene at Landor Place. If you can only come for the morning or afternoon, that’s fine. But please do come! And please sign up on this volunteer spreadsheet so we know how many people to count on and how many trucks we’ll have at our disposal.
Kids are welcome! But they will need supervision, since we’ll be working in and around the street with tools and machinery. And bring work gloves, if you have them.
The backup rain date will be the following Saturday, February 7.
Good News!
Earlier this week, Brian Choate and I dug up more than 20 shoots from the existing blueberry patches. (See picture above.) We potted them, and Brian is going to maintain them as they grow. If they propagate well, we shouldn’t need to buy many new bushes in the future!
