Wild Blueberry 2-year Production Cycle

1st year is the vegetative year
( mowing and/or burning fields and emergence of new plants)

Slide 1: Blueberry fields with blueberries on plants.

Slide 2: Machine mowing blueberry fields in the Fall

Slide 3: Machine mowing blueberry fields in the Fall.

Slide 4: Machine burning blueberry fields in the Fall.

Slide 5: Emergence of a new blueberry plant.

Slide 6: Blueberry fields in their green, vegetative state.

Slide 7: Blueberry fields during the Fall foliage.

Slide 8: A new blueberry stem peeking up through the snow.

 

2nd year is the fruit-bearing year
(pollinating and irrigating fields, monitoring for insects and disease, harvesting berries).

Slide 9: Blueberry blossoms on plants.

Slide 10: Truck delivering bee hives for pollination..

Slide 11: Imported bee boxes being placed in fields for pollination.

Slide 12: A swarm of honeybees.

Slide 13: Bees pollinating blueberry blossoms.

Slide 14: Irrigating blueberry fields with water.

Slide 15: Using a big gun to irrigate blueberry fields.

Slide 16: Blueberries ripening in the fields.

Slide 17: Grasshopper on blueberry plant.

Slide 18: Sticky, yellow baited trap placed in a blueberry field for monitoring blueberry thrips.

Slide 19: A woman sweeping insects with a net in a blueberry field..

Slide 20: Blueberry fruit.

Slide 21: A man handraking blueberry fields.

Slide 22: Using a small, mechanical harvester to rake blueberries.

Slide 23: Using a large, mechanical harvester to rake blueberries.

Slide 24: A box of freshly raked blueberries.

Slide 25: Dave Yarborough at blueberry production plant.