[nafex] If you had one blueberry bush...

I have a lot of blueberry bushes, but I don't get any berries because the birds and chipmunks eat them all. I also have a large cage, about 3'x4' and about 8' high, that I built to protect a "Carmine Jewel" cherry.

The cherry is overgrowing the cage. More importantly, I don't love it. It doesn't have a lot of "zing". So I'm thinking of taking it out, and wondered what i could grow in the cage.

A large blueberry bush! That would fit nicely. And I adore blueberries.

But I only have space to protect one. So I want the very best. That would mean:
Lots of flavor (more small berries are almost certainly better than fewer large berries)
Lots of total fruit
I tend to prefer fruits on the sour side, and often find very sweet fruit bland
Of course, it has to be hardy where I live, eastern MA, zone 6. The soil isn't super-acidic, but all those other blueberry bushes seem to do okay, except for the fruit all going away before it's ripe.

I like a somewhat firm blueberry, but some of the firmest ones don't feel life blueberries to me. I don't want my blueberries t crunch.

So, what blueberry would you recommend?

Many thanks,
Ginda Fisher
eastern MA, zone 6
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