So back to the business of pruning.  Our blueberry bushes are tall.  I’m trying to remedy that, but every time I dig into a bush and think I’ve finished, I then step back.  The view from a few steps back often look like I haven’t done enough.  I am cutting out the stuff that is too high to reach, as well as any of the dead wood.  It just doesn’t look like it to me when I’m done.  I do know that whatever I do now will make my life easier come summer.   I just have to keep telling myself that.

I’m taking a clear out the middle approach to encourage new growth there. Next year when some of that growth has established itself, I’ll hack off the rest of the overly tall stuff. Some of these bushes have grown to over 10 feet tall. For us short folk, that’s not very pickable.

I really need to be done with pruning by the end of April, so if I can get 5 hours a week in for the next 6 weeks, that means I’ll be 2/3′s of the way through the bushes. Past years have had a 1/3 of the bushes pruned, so I’m probably being overly optimistic. So it goes.