Show us your Blueberries!

[out in the cold]

Thanks (again) for the advice AP.

I potted it on towards the end of last year, so will get it in the ground when it thaws out.

[Aberdeenplotter]

Treat it to some ericaceous compost when planting out and it should thrive. I have a dozen bushes in my plot, in the soil and didn't give them anything else when I planted them. It's taken 5 years for them to properly establish and last year was the first year with a decent crop. I haven't studied blueberries in detail, I'm more of a raspberry man but I'm sure I read somewhere that most varieties need a cross pollinator so if you only have one, you maybe need to do some research.

[DuncanM]

I've got 10 blueberry (some are 'pinkberry lemonade' versions and were much smaller) plants, all purchased last year. The two I got first - were the biggest from a local garden centre, and I pot these straight into the ground (after digging in lots of ericaceous compost). These produced the most berries last year, but not massive amounts (only 10 or so per plant), but they have grown incredibly well so I'm expecting better things this year. They've been mulched with bark (couldn't get hold of any pine needles) and spent coffee granules.

All the others have been moved down the allotment, and so, were only planted in their final positions late last autumn. I'm not expecting big things from them this year but hoping I can get quite a blueberry farm going. I'll stop the pinkberry plants (all bar 1 - for tasting) from cropping to hopefully help spurt them on. I will try and propogate some of them, but I've read they are one of the more difficult plants to do so. Unlike my blackcurrants that would sprout in absolutely anything :P