OT growing blue berrys

ray sprague · Feb 28, 2009

was thinking about growing some blue berrys for the u pic market any thoughts postive or negative and what kind of plants to buy i think a upright that would grow like a bush maybe 5 foot tall would be better than one that grows as a speading short knee hi bush any help would be a plus thanks everyone

Anonymous-0 · Feb 28, 2009

need very low pH. I think it was around 4-5 to thrive! Thats whats holding us back from planting more. A lot of work to keep the pH low enough on our soil.

Wesley Stephens · Feb 28, 2009

In our part of the world, there are a lot of blueberries, especially across the Cape Fear River from us. The soil is very acidic and sandy in that area and there are several thousand acres of blueberries. The two main types are rabbiteye and highbush. The NC Cooperative Extension website has a lot of information. Here is the link

www.ces.ncsu.edu
http://www.smallfruits.org

GA Dave · Feb 28, 2009

Google blueberries. David...............

Mike (WA) · Mar 1, 2009

Ideally, they like a peat type soil, very low pH. We have 3 plants in the garden, clay soil so I didn't know how they'd do, but we have low pH naturally, and they're very productive.

Rollie NE PA · Mar 1, 2009

We used to have about 40 blueberry bushes. We used acidic fertilizer on them. Big problem with birds. If you do plant some make sure you have 3 different breeds.

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