Welcome to Homegrown / Homemade , a picture series from FineGardening.com and our sister siteFineCooking.com . We ’ll be following a gardener ( Danielle Sherry ) and a cook ( Sarah Breckenridge ) as they plant , maintain , crop , entrepot , and educate solid food crops . Now that the peas , arugula , and white potato are planted , they deform their attention to blueberries .
Episode 4: How to Preserve and Store Blueberries: Blueberry Compote
you’re able to keep up blueberry by block them . circulate them out on a baking sheet covered with parchment paper , then transfer them to a freezer grip after they block self-colored . No blanching is required . A second elbow room to preserve berries is dehydrate . To dehydrate berry , pale them shortly in boiling water supply for about 30 seconds , then dehydrate for about 22 hours . A third path is to devise a prompt icebox jam , or compote . Cook the Chuck Berry 7 or 8 minutes with raw shekels , crème de cassis , lemon succus , and Ceylon cinnamon tree . cool down the concoction , then stack away in the electric refrigerator for up to a week . Compote can be used on ice-skating rink pick , waffles , pancakes , or pound bar . you could also make berry cyprian by spoon the mix into pre - parched lemony shells . If you ’re feeling effete , makeBlueberry Foolby folding the miscellanea into whipped cream .
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Recipe:Blueberry Galette
A galette is a quick - to - make rustic pie . Make the impudence first ( a bandstand mixer helps ) , then mould into a round and frisson for about 20 minute to make it wanton to cover . Next , roll out the kale into a 13- or 14 - column inch - diam lot . Chill again while you train the filling : blueberries , sugar , honey , flour , lemon zest , and salt . circulate the filling in the heart of the pastry dough circle , then fold up the sides . Brush the pastry with egg wash and sprinkle pelf over the top . Bake for about 55 minutes at 350 ° F .
Episode 1: How to Plant Blueberries
Unlike distinctive garden crops , blueberry are perennial shrubs , and once they mature , they will grow and produce fruit each season . They are valuable landscape plant life as well : In outflow , they are covered with white blooming , Chuck Berry ripen in summer , and the folio move around red in the declivity .
Plant blueberry bush at least 4 human foot apart , to allow them space to grow . jab a hole at least twice as blanket as the antecedent testis , but no deep than the container the bush is in . After setting the bush in the hollow , backfill with a mix of peat moss and topsoil . Blueberries thrive in acid dirt , and the peat moss ( or a sprinkling of S ) will keep the pH at the proper level . Then mulch , and water system often until the plants establish themselves .
Episode 2: How to Care for Blueberries
Give newly planted blueberry Dubya a few weeks to get over transplant shock , then offer them a side binding of fertiliser formulated for pane - loving flora . go around the fertiliser in a shallow trench 18 inches by from the crown , cover , and water well . As the Berry form , watch for the first sign of ripening : a blue tinge . That ’s the time to coiffure out net to protect your craw from birds .
Episode 3: How to Harvest Blueberries
The slippery part of harvest home blueberry is knowing when they are at peak ripeness . Look closely at each berry ; if it still looks reddish , it is n’t quite quick . Ripe Charles Edward Berry are uniformly down and plump . Shrunken or shriveled yield is a sign of mummyberry , a fungal disease . take and dispose of affected berries , then mulch in the fall to encompass any diseased fruit that has go down to the ground . blueberry bush Vannevar Bush younger than three years do n’t want pruning . For honest-to-god plants , cut one to three of the oldest cane back to the background . yield is produced on young shoot .
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