In this episode, I will show you all how to grow blueberries. We will discuss varieties, soil, ph, watering, fertilizing, sunlight, pests, and even growing in containers.
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Coffee grounds for acidity?
Can you show how to grow Broccolini? Everyone shows regular broccoli, but Broccolini is so different (and delicious) so I’d love to know how to grow it cause I’ve not had any luck
Nice. I am waiting a few more days to get through what I hope is our last freeze of spring, but I've said that the last few weeks. Each time I get ready to plant my new blueberry bushes, I check the weather and the forecast changes again. I just brought them inside once again from the front porch.
Can you do a grow guide for cannabis?
I planted two small blueberries about a week ago in the ground. However, I now want to move them to a better location in the garden. Is it safe to remove and transplant them to a different location? Also, I have two of the same varieties. Does the cross pollination boost work if they are the same variety?
I am growing pink lemonade blueberries. Are you familiar with this type? I am excited about the opportunity to taste them. Thank you for sharing, Luke.
Luke I’ve have blueberry plants in my fenced in garden & they are about 3 years old. I went out this spring to trim & clean up around the plants & one of my plants had been chewed to the ground during the winter. Could that be from mice? What can I do to protect the plants during those winter months
Luke I have 2 blueberry plants 1 in ground and the other in 25 gallon pot that I made out of a 55 gallon hard plastic with tge bottom cut out which is a year older then the one in the ground and I get enough berries. I planted them about 30 feet from a pine tree. I just have to fight the birds.
Put 2 in last year, have 5 more to put in this year. QUESTION. Do they take 2 yrs to fruit?
Hi Luke. I have a Blueray and a Chippewa to plant this weekend. Both are in 3 gallon containers and are already covered in white flowers. Should I still splay the roots before planting?
What makes your container soil well draining ? Adding vermiculite or pearlite ? What else ?
Great info thank you. Do you trim them down all the way to the soil in the fall? Thanks
that reminds me that i need to get a few bird nets for my already established bushes that are starting to fruit this year for the first time
Can you grow blueberries in a container ?
Splaying out the roots. Genius!
Luke, I’ll be digging up my blueberries this week and transplanting them into 17 gal containers. I can keep my soil ph low enough. Do I need to worry in the winter about the roots freezing? I’m in a similar climate to you, 3 hours east. My new soil is 50% peat moss 50% pine mulch. Im planning to lightly shake off as much soil as possible to plant as close to bare root as possible. Do you see any problem?
Thank you for doing this video I just got my blueberry plant yesterday & am dying to get it planted. This is the 1st time I am growing blueberries so this was very helpful!
I also pucked up blackberry & raspberry plants as well. If you could do a complete growing guide on those as well would be wonderful!
If I plant them in my raised bed how many can I plant? It's a 3' x12' box
Such a great how-to video. Great job.
I've never heard of splitting the root in the way you showed when planting.
I'll make sure to do that when I get a couple of new plants next Spring.
I just planted 4 blueberry plants a few days ago
Great video! Not necessarily related but could you do a "top 10" list for plants that provide the most food per input/space? With food costs going so high, it'd be nice to get your thoughts on maximizing production in a garden space.
I'm hearing mixed messages on pruning blueberry bushes. I get cutting broken or spindly ones, but how do you like to prune bushes?
Do you suggest planting blueberries in pots vs in the ground? My plants should be arriving soon and I was planning on putting them right into the ground but maybe I should do pots until they are older?
This will be my first attempt with blueberries. I'm in zone 5a. I 've seen and read a lot about soil prep. Many say acidity should be 4.5 -5.5 PH so I was surprise you advise in the 6 range. Some say peat moss isn't all that acidic. A UW Extension advised a soiless medium and some just prep the soil as you did and plant in ground. Blueberries have a shallow root system of about 6". A black pot in the sun will get really hot and also require more water and would suggest wrapping burlap around outside and mulching the top away from stems. The other thing is in extreme winter weather plants in pots don't fair well so will need to be dug in to the ground or brought in to unheated building. I prefer to plant in ground and prepped with compost, peat and native soil and will landscape the 5' between plants with cardboard and pine bark. I was going to sink pots with bottoms cut out, but thought why? They don't grow in ME out in the wild like that according to cousin. They apparently like moist soil as the high bush grow well near their lake. I guess I would like them to naturalized and not fuss with transplanting, winterizing and constricting roots as they grow horizontally.
Hopefully they will grow like weeds as the cedars and oaks do here. It is sandy and dryer than normal due to drought. I like you mentioned mesh bird netting as the larger netting traps snakes. My other concern here is squirrels and would probably gather the bottom. I figure if they like peaches they will like blueberries. It's nice you had actual bare root that hasn't broke dormancy. It seems it will never warm up here in WI and mine were leafed out at arrival weeks ago. It has forced me to heat our thankfully small greenhouse for the first time as I have no other place to put them. All these bare root plants had to be potted up and stored there and I'm running out of room for seedlings. Crazy Spring for sure. Another freezing night and then only 40-50s during day with at least 40s at night for another week. Hopefully the cooler weather slows my pepper plants down as they are really liking the greenhouse majorly!
Thanks for covering blueberries and best of luck for all.
Bought two tophat plants lost one I believe I saved the other because it's showing new growth so maybe propagate when it gets a little bigger?
Is coco choir a good alternative to peat?
Why didn't you talk about pruning.!?!.