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Advice - Mulch for blueberries?

sue.harden1sue.harden1 Posts: 33
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First year for growing blueberries - time to feed and mulch soon - advice is to use pine needles, leaf mould or bark chippings?  Any help from all you blueberry experts on what you use around the base of blueberries would be greatly appreciated.   Where would I find this mulch? 🤔 thanks 😊 

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  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,385
    If they are in pots, you can just put bark chippings on top to help keep the moisture in.  Once they are 2 or 3 years old, you can start scraping off the top couple of inches of compost from the top and replacing it with fresh bagged ericaceous (acid) compost which will help keep the pH nice and low.  I normally feed mine a standard ericaceous plant food for azaleas etc. 
    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • sue.harden1sue.harden1 Posts: 33
    BobTheGardener - thank you 👍

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