Thanks for the link. I ran across a recipe for enhancing tomatoes that included sugar - maybe it would work on berries too:
1/2 C sugar
1 C Epsom Salts
1/2 C Bone Meal
Mulch
Mix all together, toss some in the planting hole, and put some on top to water in after plant begins to flower.
The Chef’s Garden - says that it will make the tomatoes taste sweeter.
Used coffee grounds dumped in the soil around berries makes ‘em sweet.
I dump coffee grounds around peach and persimmon trees, too.
To supercharge any type of produce that acts like it doesn’t want to bear, put 1tblsp. Epsom salt per 2 gal water. Sprinkle just an ounce or so of this Epsom water verrrry lightly, a few inches away from the plant, then water in thoroughly. A tiny amount causes miraculous results.
Do this only once. Better to under-do than overdo. Too much can burn the roots.
Or, if you use commercial fertilizers, look at the 3 numbers. N-P-K stands for nitrogen, phosphorous, potassium. Get a fertilizer with the biggest number in the middle, IOW with a higher ratio of phosphorous. This will give you LOTS more flowers, and a bumper crop of produce.
I’ve mostly stopped buying commercial fertilizers. Composting religiously, mulching with grass clippings, and using the Epsom salts trick gives us more than we can eat.
We take garbage bags when we go to the beach, in order to collect the dried seaweed that is everywhere. This goes in our compost pile.
Oh my! I was joking with Darlin that I needed to put some sugar on them, and now you are telling me I was right! (we think!) LOL!
Thanks!