New to Blueberries

[Nicos]

2sheds- if you find them tasteless , just gently cook them with a sprinkling of sugar!YUM!

My 3 bushes are in a wind tunnel too-the bay tree looks dreadful after this winter, and yet the blueberries which are planted next to it look absolutely fine- in fact one of them is about to open it's buds any day now!!
No idea about pots though- sorry!

[womble]

Is it having trouble sleeping?

lol

Don't know, that's what I'm worried about

[piskieinboots]

Again, I can only relay what I have done, I have never given my blueberries tea, coffee, wine or anything stronger than water - they have been excellent fruiters

Interesting about the coffee grounds though

[Madasafish]

My blueberries are grown in the ground : at the end of our fruit section: shaded until 11am after spring..

Great taste if left to ripen properly - lots of netting needed.

Our soil is neutral: I add lots of compost every year and a 4 monthly dose of acidifying feed.. Growmore for Ericaceous plants.

Part from that healthy neglect. 2 died on me, the remaining five are healthy.

Over winter the temperatures drop as low as -17C and we had one spell of two weeks when the ground was always frozen..
They survive..

[bobleponge]

I dont grow them, as I am in the tasteless corner with TS, but my gardening guru's do.
Theirs were grown as cuttings from another bush, grown on in a raised bed and then into the ground proper.
They water often, use pine needles and I have a feeling coffee too, possibly wood ash??
Last year they got over 15lb of them, tried to give some to me but I refused.

[Jeanied]

Yay - just picked up a new one from wilkinsons! That makes 2 in pots on the plot. Nothing quite like 'em for muffins and pancakes. Thanks for the info folks.

[sarraceniac]

2sheds- if you find them tasteless , just gently cook them with a sprinkling of sugar!YUM!

My 3 bushes are in a wind tunnel too-the bay tree looks dreadful after this winter, and yet the blueberries which are planted next to it look absolutely fine- in fact one of them is about to open it's buds any day now!!
No idea about pots though- sorry!

Despite the fact that I spent one third of my life on the other side of the Atlantic, i never really liked them. Then at the end of last year my local market was selling them off at about 40p a punnet. We were wandering with neighbours and Carol bought about 10 punnets.

'I don't really like them' I said. 'Try them my way' said Carol (the neighbour).

It was like what you do Nicos but with a soupçon (hey that's good, I found the cedilla on a UK keyboard) of clove powder. It cost me nearly £20 to buy 3 bushes.

[littleexperience]

i dont know the life expectancy of blueberries but i have 2 varieties patriot and chandler which are over 10 years old in 50 litre pots i would advise to repot them every 2-3 years with new ericaceous compost and give them a trim in feb just before it starts to bud in march mine keep getting bigger crops as the years pass chandler has berrys the size of a 10p one of the easiest and hardiest fruit anyone can grow

[DaveJ]

I have grown blueberries for a number of years. Each year I have a heavy crop yet all I have ever done is placed them in container of ericaceous and watered them using rainwater. Other than that I have left nature to do its work. Yes, when eating blueberries straight off the bush they are tasteless, but when used in cooking that's when the taste really comes alive.

[Llamas]

I've got to get some of these. I spent about 9 years of my childhood running wild in the Deep South of the states and I remember bushes so big we used to have to climb them to get to the top where the best berries were. sigh....wheres my debit card *rumagerummagerummage*

[mrscorpio]

I was told by a friend to dig a lemon into the soil at the base of the blueberry bush to replace the acid levels in the soil. Has anyone tried this?
My blueberry is very sad and I didnt bother picking the 3 berrys it produced last year. I would love to revive it. Also due to this thread I have purchased 3 more plants at the weekend and potted them in ericaceous compost as recommended here. My wife makes excellent blueberry muffins and blueberry pavlova, but with only 3 berrys the muffins are getting smaller.

[21again]

I bought a blueberry plant from Aldi last year. I am sure that I read last week that you need to have at least 2 for them to bear any fruit, is this correct, do I need to buy another one?

[sarraceniac]

To get a good crop you really need 2 21again. They often will fruit without an external pollinator but not very impressively.

[21again]

To get a good crop you really need 2 21again. They often will fruit without an external pollinator but not very impressively.

Tut!

I haven't got a clue which type it was as I have lost the details, I suppose they should be the same type is that right?

[oldie]

From what I understand they do not need to be the same type.