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[C Waite MACLIN <cwaitemaclin@me.com>]

Hi, Glenda. Two blueberry I have had great success with are  Berkely and  
Jersey.  I am in Zone 6a, Pastor Chuck Orchards, Cushing, Maine. Good 
fortune. Waite Maclin

Also, I have had luck with putting either garden netting or remay over my 
bushes to protect from critters.

> On Apr 30, 2020, at 8:34 AM, Ginda Fisher <list@ginda.us> wrote:
> 
> I have a lot of blueberry bushes, but I don’t get any berries because the 
> birds and chipmunks eat them all. I also have a large cage, about  3’x4’ 
> and about 8’ high, that I built to protect a “Carmine Jewel” cherry.
> 
> The cherry is overgrowing the cage. More importantly, I don’t love it. It 
> doesn’t have a lot of “zing”. So I’m thinking of taking it out, and 
> wondered what i could grow in the cage.
> 
> A large blueberry bush! That would fit nicely. And I adore blueberries.
> 
> But I only have space to protect one. So I want the very best. That would 
> mean:
> Lots of flavor (more small berries are almost certainly better than fewer 
> large berries)
> Lots of total fruit
> I tend to prefer fruits on the sour side, and often find very sweet fruit 
> bland
> Of course, it has to be hardy where I live, eastern MA, zone 6. The soil 
> isn’t super-acidic, but all those other blueberry bushes seem to do okay, 
> except for the fruit all going away before it’s ripe.
> 
> I like a somewhat firm blueberry, but some of the firmest ones don’t feel 
> life blueberries to me. I don’t want my blueberries t crunch.
> 
> So, what blueberry would you recommend?
> 
> Many thanks,
> Ginda Fisher
> eastern MA, zone 6
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C. Waite Maclin
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Maclin Consulting
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