Please take Verdun's advice and check out Trehane's nursery online also known as the Dorset Blueberry Company. They have great fact sheets. Also, if you email them with a question, they will respond.
A lady on our Allotment grows Blueberries. Every year she harvests pots and pots of fruit I have never seen anything like it.She told me that she feeds them every few weeks starting in the spring with Ericaceous liquid feed diluted in water. She had them covered with netting because birds would strip them clean.
Blueberries are wonderful plants specially for children to get interested in gardening. I now have ten plants and find them very successful. About four of my plants have come from Trehane's nursery which is just up the road from me. I visited them about six weeks ago to ask them about slow growth on my plants. The upshot was that I am doing nothing wrong. They are just fairly slow growing plants Trehane's mature plants which they use commercially are about fifty years old and about five feet tall. I asked if I was feeding them enough about six times a year, the owner responded that it would not harm them but they only give their plants about a teaspoonful of fertiliser once a year. Blueberries like an acid soil just like Rhododendrons so use ericaceous compost when planting. In summer do not let their roots dry out and its better to water with rain water if you live in hard water area. I started with three Bluecrop plants which did not fruit in their first year and only produced a small crop in the second year. but each year since I have consistently improved crop of lovely sweet berries. Plants purchased from supermarkets are cheaper but are very small and will take about four years to produce some worthwhile fruit, so its better to pay a bit more and get a bigger plant which will fruit sooner. If you shop around you can get a good sized plant from a garden centre for about £10 better still if you are close enough visit Trehane's nursery near Wimborne you will be able to talk to the experts as they were the first commercial Blueberry growers in UK . Good luck with your Blueberries.
If you cover the surface of the compost in the pot with stones,this will help with retaining moisture in the compost and help stop evaporation on hot days.
Our blueberries (in pots, eric compost) early, m id and late, just ripening nicely, were moved into bed, OH covered in wooden frames and chicken wire a few years back, with the raspberries,and gooseberries, I caught a thrush in there this morning, that had some how managed to sneak in, there is a little gap by the blackcurrants.
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Please take Verdun's advice and check out Trehane's nursery online also known as the Dorset Blueberry Company. They have great fact sheets. Also, if you email them with a question, they will respond.
A lady on our Allotment grows Blueberries. Every year she harvests pots and pots of fruit I have never seen anything like it.She told me that she feeds them every few weeks starting in the spring with Ericaceous liquid feed diluted in water. She had them covered with netting because birds would strip them clean.
Blueberries are wonderful plants specially for children to get interested in gardening. I now have ten plants and find them very successful. About four of my plants have come from Trehane's nursery which is just up the road from me. I visited them about six weeks ago to ask them about slow growth on my plants. The upshot was that I am doing nothing wrong. They are just fairly slow growing plants Trehane's mature plants which they use commercially are about fifty years old and about five feet tall. I asked if I was feeding them enough about six times a year, the owner responded that it would not harm them but they only give their plants about a teaspoonful of fertiliser once a year. Blueberries like an acid soil just like Rhododendrons so use ericaceous compost when planting. In summer do not let their roots dry out and its better to water with rain water if you live in hard water area. I started with three Bluecrop plants which did not fruit in their first year and only produced a small crop in the second year. but each year since I have consistently improved crop of lovely sweet berries. Plants purchased from supermarkets are cheaper but are very small and will take about four years to produce some worthwhile fruit, so its better to pay a bit more and get a bigger plant which will fruit sooner. If you shop around you can get a good sized plant from a garden centre for about £10 better still if you are close enough visit Trehane's nursery near Wimborne you will be able to talk to the experts as they were the first commercial Blueberry growers in UK . Good luck with your Blueberries.
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Our blueberries (in pots, eric compost) early, m id and late, just ripening nicely, were moved into bed, OH covered in wooden frames and chicken wire a few years back, with the raspberries,and gooseberries, I caught a thrush in there this morning, that had some how managed to sneak in, there is a little gap by the blackcurrants.
I netted ours, picked one bowlful, then the blackbirds found a way in and stripped the lot.