{"id":26447,"date":"2025-04-19T10:08:55","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T14:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/blueberries\/?p=26447"},"modified":"2025-04-28T08:03:43","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T12:03:43","slug":"blueberry-season-is-starting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/blueberries\/2025\/04\/19\/blueberry-season-is-starting\/","title":{"rendered":"Blueberry season is starting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We have just started to see bud swelling in the Midcoast region.  The warm weather forecast for this weekend and early next week will probably get the plant buds starting to open.  <br>We are starting to get our blueberry weather stations out and hope to have them all out over the next week or so. <br><br>I would like to hear how your plants are coming along.  If you have a mummy berry plot in your field, please let me know how it is developing.  <br><br>You can reach me at 1.800.897.0757 option 3 or by email at sannis@maine.edu. <br><br>Seanna Annis<br>Blueberry Pathologist<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have just started to see bud swelling in the Midcoast region. The warm weather forecast for this weekend and early next week will probably get the plant buds starting to open. We are starting to get our blueberry weather stations out and hope to have them all out over the next week or so. 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