Blueberry cultivars guide

[Pineberry]

Guide about different blueberry cultivars:
http://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/xm...7/ec1308-e.pdf

Useful info to choose what you could grow depending on the taste and crop size.

[FB.]

In this area, the soil is usually alkaline (and often droughty in summer), which blueberries can't tolerate.

So they usually need the soil changing in the spot they'll be planted, or be grown in pots of ericaeous compost.

[Darwin.]

I'm not a fan of blueberries but my wife and daughter are so I've got 3 small bushes. I'll be moving them thi year, possibly to the new hedge or just to the 3 ft raised bed I'm putting where they are now.

[Nicos]

Nice link!

[StaryD]

Thanks for the link, very useful.
I decided last year that I was going to grow blueberries, I knew they needed an nice acidic soil so I built a raised bed just for it, lined it with black polythene (bottom and half way up the sides) and filled with Ericaceous compost (about 80L) and a year on, its almost tripled in sized already.

[rita1]

i love blueberries i have two in pots but i would love to be able to plant them in the ground, that's a good idea StaryD i might get hubby to build me another bed to put them into and maybe get another, do they have large roots, mine have been in there pots for a couple of years now.

[StaryD]

I am not sure about the size of the roots and I wasn't at the time I brought the bush, so we made the bed around a meter square and about the same in height.
We have to add another bag of acidic compost this year as after a while, it sure does compact down.
Here is a picture of it after only about 10 months of being in the ground (remembering what these bushes are like when you buy them as a bare root) It has gone crazy.
I can not remember the name of the variety, sorry.
(also please excuse the long grass, we hadn't long got back from a holiday and the grass seriously needed cutting)