Where are the blueberries?

After planting the blueberry bushes we covered the surrounding soil with woodchips. What we had forgotten was to put cardboard down first, so after a few months the blueberry patch looked like in the picture above.

We made it a family affair and started weeding. We even needed to dig up some of the bigger weeds, but freeing the first blueberry bush and seeing how well it looked was very nice.

The only down side is that we only found a handful of (obvious still unripe) blueberries on the bushes.

After a few days I noticed that the blueberries did not look so good anymore. The leafs are not really green anymore. Was it sunburn?

We left some of the flowering “weeds” for the bees.