This summer we plan to grow blueberries. Our neighbor Mike already has a few plants and has told us we are in a prime location to grow blueberries. They like where we live. I like eating them, so I was ecstatic when Mike broke this news. It was our first week of living here. We are going to start with about 100 feet of blueberry plants and see how it goes. Eventually we would like to have our lower parcel of land covered with the plants.
Mike has been schooling us on farming and has shared that sawdust is an ideal mulch for blueberries. As the sawdust decomposes it acidifies the soil and blueberries prefer an acid environment. Mike's been on a sawdust hunt, so in an effort to contribute to our blueberry growing enterprise, I called lumber mills within a decent driving distance to inquire on prices for a pick up truck full of sawdust.
The best price I found was fifteen dollars. I don't really know the market value of sawdust, but fifteen dollars seemed like a fair price for a pick up truck full of anything. However, in the spirit of shopping around I called Miller's Family Sawmill in Lewisburg, Kentucky. I believe Mr. Miller answered the phone. He quoted me his price for sawdust ($30) and then noted that I was calling from awfully far away for sawdust. "You're going to come from Connecticut for sawdust?" he asked. "Seems like you could find somewhere closer" he added. I laughed and explained that I was using a cell phone with a Connecticut phone number but was indeed located in Tennessee. Apparently his caller ID threw him for a loop. I guess Mr. Miller hadn't heard of people moving and keeping their old cell phone numbers. Could I have been the first person to call Miller's Family Sawmill with an unfamiliar area code? I guess I'll never get answers to my follow up questions because as I suspected fifteen dollars is a damn good price for a truck full of sawdust. Unless Mike tells me it should be free.
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