Garden Blueberry Bushes
Lowbush varieties can be cultivated by both lowbush or highbush cultivars.
Garden blueberry bushes. What plants can be planted near a blueberry bush. Highbush blueberry plants producing ripe berries in late spring to midsummer include. The best time to plant a blueberry bush early season blueberries. Prepare a planting mixture of 2 parts loam and.
If compost is not available use the finest bark mulch you can find and add 10 peat moss. Muhly grass muhlenbergia capillaris is just one acid loving ornamental grass for usda zones 6. Fruiting bushes grow hand in hand with blueberries providing a whole summer of fruit. Planting blueberry bushes in your garden is possible with a little preparation.
Set the bush in the hole. What does a blueberry bush look like. Blueberry bushes are attractive ornamental shrubs that will be covered with tiny white flowers in the spring bright green foliage in the summer and will light up the yard in autumn when the leaves turn bright orange and red. How to plant blueberry bushes dig holes about 20 inches deep and 18 inches wide or about twice as wide and twice as deep as the roots of the plant.
Blueberry bushes are long lived plants with a lifespan similar to fruit trees. Keep the compost or soil moist but not soaking wet. Neither lowbush or rabbiteye blueberry bushes are self fertile meaning that you need a different cultivar of rabbiteye to pollinate. Not only are blueberries productive their glorious autumn colours provide ornamental appeal.
Highbush blueberries are popular fruits for eating and cooking. Mid and late season blueberries. Shrubs can be grown in the garden border or as attractive container plants. Blueberry shrubs grow happily in small groups and also work well in a hedge row.
Dig the hole twice the size of the roots and back fill with a rich compost mixture. In addition the plants provide ornamental value with their delicate white blossoms in the spring and fiery foliage in the autumn. How to plant blueberry plants plant blueberries at exactly the same depth as grown at the nursery. Blueberries are relatively easy to look after.
Lowbush varieties are short true bushes that generally grow low to the ground usually no more than a foot and a half in height. Space bushes 4 5 feet apart in a row with at least 8 feet between rows. The fruit is delicious and high in antioxidants. While these are popular fruits many people are unsure as to what a blueberry bush looks like.
It looks like a typical shrub with shiny oval shaped green leaves. These berry plants get about three feet high and almost as wide. Blueberry plant companions can help the shrubs to grow.