@seacrows I think you may be right about ‘pink lemonade’. I had mine for 2 years in dapple shade and yet to see any berries . Moved it to scorching sun spot this year to see how it would respond
I have 3 varieties and they're all good croppers. Patriot,Herbert and Ozark Blue. I harvest berries daily from Mid-June until Mid/late August. Ozark Blue is my fave with a good balance of sweetness and tartness. Herbert has the strongest blueberry flavour of them all, but is quite tart.
So long as they get fed once a month with ericaceous fertilizer and watered with rainwater they are no problem - they prefer to be wet rather than dry, so it's not easy to overwater them. They only need repotting (in ericaceous compost) every few years and just need a light pruning in early spring. I grow them in a cage as the birds LOVE them
Billericay - Essex
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I'm very tempted by your post Pete.8. I have blueberries every day for breakfast so the idea of picking sun warmed fruit is appealing. Just me so would 3 plants be enough?
I am growing them for the first time this year and have pots of Brigitta and Liberty. I bought them from Trehane Nursery, an exceptional company with a good range of plants, full descriptions, excellent advice and the most secure packaging I have ever encountered when buying plants by mail order.
I've just looked at your link BenCotto and recognise most of those berries as ones that I've eaten and enjoyed. Which size pots did you buy and when might you expect them to fruit please?
I have just discovered a Which? review of blueberries. Only 11 varieties were compared:
Best for taste: Ozark Blue, Spartan, Bluedrop, Darrow Best for yield: Ozark Blue, Spartan, Aurora Best for quality of berries: Bluedrop, Darrow, Powder Blue, Rubel, Spartan Best for Autumn colour: Spartan, Bluedrop, Rubel, Powder Blue, Buddy, Darrow
I'm very tempted by your post Pete.8. I have blueberries every day for breakfast so the idea of picking sun warmed fruit is appealing. Just me so would 3 plants be enough?
Yes 3 is enough for me. I'm the same. I have freshly picked blueberries and raspberries every day with my porridge and there's enough to freeze to see me though the winter until around now.
It was a friend who told me he had frozen 14Kg of blueberries from 5 plants a few years ago that encouraged me to buy some plants.
They ripen over quite a long period so there's enough every day for my porridge and some for the freezer. Ozark Blue below
PS - I bought mine from Trehane - excellent plants - highly recommended
Billericay - Essex
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Uff,3 bushes are enough for your handful for breakfast. Yeald do very from year to year. I had 3, cannot remember the name of the last,it also began with D. I bought my daughter Bridgette,that produces a good crop,and she a wimp about sweetness! I think I also gave her a Bluecrop. Yes huge amount of water. We lost the 3rd, summer 2019 no rain for 3 months.
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Patriot,Herbert and Ozark Blue. I harvest berries daily from Mid-June until Mid/late August. Ozark Blue is my fave with a good balance of sweetness and tartness.
Herbert has the strongest blueberry flavour of them all, but is quite tart.
So long as they get fed once a month with ericaceous fertilizer and watered with rainwater they are no problem - they prefer to be wet rather than dry, so it's not easy to overwater them.
They only need repotting (in ericaceous compost) every few years and just need a light pruning in early spring.
I grow them in a cage as the birds LOVE them
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
https://www.trehanenursery.co.uk/Blueberry_Plants_s/2343.htm
Which size pots did you buy and when might you expect them to fruit please?
Best for taste: Ozark Blue, Spartan, Bluedrop, Darrow
Best for yield: Ozark Blue, Spartan, Aurora
Best for quality of berries: Bluedrop, Darrow, Powder Blue, Rubel, Spartan
Best for Autumn colour: Spartan, Bluedrop, Rubel, Powder Blue, Buddy, Darrow
I'm the same. I have freshly picked blueberries and raspberries every day with my porridge and there's enough to freeze to see me though the winter until around now.
It was a friend who told me he had frozen 14Kg of blueberries from 5 plants a few years ago that encouraged me to buy some plants.
They ripen over quite a long period so there's enough every day for my porridge and some for the freezer.
Ozark Blue below
PS - I bought mine from Trehane - excellent plants - highly recommended
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.