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Blueberry advice please

CheerybethCheerybeth Posts: 18
in Fruit & veg

i thinking about ordering blueberries and am planning on buying a collection of three plants. I've seen two collections: one names the varieties but is more expensive, the other is cheap but only lists the plants as 'early, mid and late'. as I've looked around different suppliers ive realised that different nurseries class the same variety as fruiting   at different times, so I can't second guess the varieties that will be supplied. 

 

I suppose what I'm asking is has anyone bought Suttons value blueberry collection? If so which varieties were supplied?

Thank you in advanceimage

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  • CheerybethCheerybeth Posts: 18

    Thanks for the suggestion. Their website looks great! I just need to decide on varieties now! An early and a mid to late I think. 

  • bekkie hughesbekkie hughes Posts: 5,294
    Hi Cheerybeth image



    Ive got a mixture of named and pound shop plants, all are good, but if you can afford it, i would go with the best within your price range, the named ones i got from "proper" suppliers have established better and were further along when i got them, the cheaper ones were just sticks really and have taken a good few years to get going image
  • chickychicky Posts: 10,409
    We have a couple of earliblue - lots of fruit and good flavour. Just need to find a way to get to them before the blackbirds image
  • WateryWatery Posts: 388

    I emailed Trehane's telling them what I wanted and asking what they suggested for my situation and they very quickly replied when options. That was my birthday gift from my lovely mother-in-law!  

  • LoganLogan Posts: 2,532
    I've bought from seed companies before they are small and take a few years to fruit. The one's from trehane's are bigger.
  • Joyce GoldenlilyJoyce Goldenlily Posts: 2,933

    I recently bought a blueberry called Jersey and a second variety called Gold Traube from my local GC, I already had a pathetic cheapie plant from "somewhere" which is a quarter of the size of the named ones with spindly stems, I am sure it will fatten up with time. When I looked on the inter -net re cultivation it said to treat the soil with sulphur to keep it acidic, something new to me. I managed to find some sulphur for sale in my local GC so will be interested to see if it works as my soil is borderline acid.

    I am putting my plants in the fruit cage to protect the fruit which I hopefully will be picking one day.

  • LoganLogan Posts: 2,532
    To stop the blackbirds eating them befriended before they ripen cover the plants with horticultural fleese.
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