No Picking Today or Saturday

Such beautiful weather we're having. It would have been nice to pick during this weather rather than 3 weeks ago.
Well, we are doing all that the Dept. of Conservation has instructed us to do. It is having some effect but we still are not going to have enough berries in time for Saturday. We turn the noise cannon off at night and when I went to turn it on at 6:30am this morning, the Robins were already heavily into their breakfast with blueberries. I did speak with a man yesterday from Cape Girardeau MO who has been in the blueberry business for 25 years. He gave me some good advice that I will be instituting more next year as I need to get the supplies. One of the ideas is utilizing a completely natural red grape extract that I can spray on the berries. For some reason Robins don't like it. They like white grapes but not red. Also, I will be hopefully investing in an electronic noise maker. He said that he found these most effective.
We may announce a "special" picking day here soon if we get some ripe berries, so....stay tuned....

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