Blueberries, 'cause I'm basic I guess. I'm gonna plant a stand in my yard, and they bear more fruit if they're fertilized by a different variety, and all the varieties have different fruit characteristics but they also bear flowers at different times so you want to get it so at least 2 kinds are flowering at any given time over the flowering season.
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\ni\u2019m still surprised blueberries grow so far from maine tbh. like i get it, blueberries grow in oregon and georgia, but blueberries are such a maine thing, even more so than the way pawpaws are a DC thing
(pawpaws are overrated, the real DC fruit is the american persimmon. pawpaws are another entry in the long list of presumed neurotoxic Annonaceae that all taste the same, but the american persimmon naturally tastes like pumpkin pie. as long as you pick out the weird flecks of pure tannins)
huh I\u2019ve never heard of maine in connection to blueberries, altho, honestly, no one ever talks about maine for any reason ime, which is presumably how maine likes it
I always associated them with michigan, but I suppose this is a regional thing - the biggest blueberry growing states are apparently washington and georgia
wild blueberries grow, afaict, literally everywhere in north america that isn\u2019t a desert. anyway blueberries kick ass. they\u2019re basic but that\u2019s because they are both easy and good
apropos of nothing but I\u2019m finding it hilarious to call blueberries basic, because their soil pH requirements are pretty acidic! they are specifically difficult to grow in much of my state because of our basic pH limestone soils ~
Yeah, they’re natively understory plants in pine forests (pines both prefer acidic soils and \u2013 by drawing from deeper, concentrating acidity in needles, and dropping them to the surface \u2013 create acidic regions, managing their own pH and inhibiting competitors with more neutral requirements from establishing). It’s not coincidence blueberries were domesticated in 1911 in New Jersey, home of the Pine Barrens. My stand is gonna be at the base of a lone Coast Redwood.
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