The bushes can grow up to 12 feet tall, but most peak at about 6 feet. In the spring, clusters of beautiful white blossoms pop up all over the bushes and are pollinated by bees. Each blossom eventually becomes one blueberry â first hard and green, then reddish-purple, and finally blue, sweet and ready to eat!or the fresh market, blueberries are mainly picked by hand, but some are gathered with large harvesting machines that move slowly along the rows of blueberry plants and gently shake each one so ripe berries fall into a catching frame. (Most machine-harvested berries are washed, frozen and sold in stores year-round.).
Lubbock, Texas at 988 m/ 3241 ft has a mid-latitude cool steppe climate (BSk). Average temperature in Lubbock, Texas is 15.6Â°C/ 41.2Â°F Rainfall 473.6mm/ 18.6in across 57 days. See graphs, tables, comparisons, more.
Next story in Weather. A dried-up area of Lake EV Spence outside of Robert Lee, Texas, exemplifies the state's record-setting heat. LUBBOCK, Texas â Texas just finished the hottest June through August on record for any state in the U.S., weather officials said Thursday. National Weather Service meteorologist Victor Murphy told The Associated Press that Texas' 86.8 degree Fahrenheit average beat out Oklahoma's 85.2 degrees in 1934. That Dust Bowl year is now third on the list for the three-month span, behind No. 2 Oklahoma's heat wave this June through August at 86.5 degrees.