We've got them in pots Blue Onion. I was chatting to a friend last year who said he picked 7kg from his 3 plants last year (he may have meant lbs!) he's had them for many years in oak 1/2 barrels. Will def need netting and ensure it's well secured to the ground all around, blackbirds will try and get under any little gaps then they get trapped inside - which ends up badly for both the bird and the blueberries
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Just watered mine, (rainwater, butt off the greenhouse) also in pots eric compost, 3 years old now, and very good crop last year.They are a mass of flowers, got an early,mid and late, once the fruit has set, they will be in the cage with other soft fruit, so that we get to eat them and not the birds.
Kristine, you'll be able to tell if your compost isn't acid enough when the bushes are in full leaf - the leaves will be yellow if there's too much lime in the compost - but I'm with the other posters, chuck away your pH tester! They look great.
Don't be tempted to feed them too frequently. I have acid soil and grow mine in the ground; I mulched the plants with reclaimed peat (round here you can buy waste peat, taken out of the filters of the local reservoirs), but have never fed them. They have quite low requirements for nutrients.
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
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I was chatting to a friend last year who said he picked 7kg from his 3 plants last year (he may have meant lbs!) he's had them for many years in oak 1/2 barrels.
Will def need netting and ensure it's well secured to the ground all around, blackbirds will try and get under any little gaps then they get trapped inside - which ends up badly for both the bird and the blueberries
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Don't be tempted to feed them too frequently. I have acid soil and grow mine in the ground; I mulched the plants with reclaimed peat (round here you can buy waste peat, taken out of the filters of the local reservoirs), but have never fed them. They have quite low requirements for nutrients.