Growing Blueberry plants

[finsfurfeathers]

Has anyone tried digging up a wild blueberrie bush and had any luck transplanting it...

tried both wild and domestic with no success. Too much of a fickle beast to cultivate for me. Have blackberries, raspberry, thimble berry, Goose berry, strawberry but never had luck with blueberry.

[Bo D]

Thimble berries are my all time favourite. I can remember as a kid my grandmother baking thimble berrie pies in a wood stove oven. When they came out of the oven she'd sprinkle sugar over the hot crust. Man they were delicious...

I'm going to try it this spring, early summer. I'll dig one or two up at our hunt camp and give it a go...

thanks

[greatwhite]

Well I picked up 3 Blueberry plants each a different type and are also self pollinating.
I also picked up 3 Haskap Honeyberry plants.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonicera_caerulea

[Fisherman]

Well I picked up 3 Blueberry plants each a different type and are also self pollinating.
I also picked up 3 Haskap Honeyberry plants.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonicera_caerulea

Looks interesting, hope they grow well for you.

[Bgh]

We plant our blueberries in trenches with a plastic liner then grow them in pure peat moss for soil. The liner keeps plants growing in the proper acid range. Add a layer of peat moss each year. The haskaps are grown in just good soil with no need of acid , treat them like a rose bush , with much during the first year.. You will need netting protection from the deer, rabbits, and birds. The haskaps will take 4 years , just like the blueberries before you get heavy production.. I had lost countless blueberries bushes and years before just using pure peat moss for a growing medium ..

[greatwhite]

How much Peat would you say per plant?

We plant our blueberries in trenches with a plastic liner then grow them in pure peat moss for soil. The liner keeps plants growing in the proper acid range. Add a layer of peat moss each year. The haskaps are grown in just good soil with no need of acid , treat them like a rose bush , with much during the first year.. You will need netting protection from the deer, rabbits, and birds. The haskaps will take 4 years , just like the blueberries before you get heavy production.. I had lost countless blueberries bushes and years before just using pure peat moss for a growing medium ..

[JoePa]

If I was only allowed to plant one thing it would be blueberries - I have over 30 bushes and get all I can use and give away to my kids - each year I end up freezing about 50 quarts - I do have a fenced in area similar to a chicken run around the berries - you can get all the information needed from you tube - blueberries are suppose to be very healthy for you - I probably eat about a cup full each day - still have a lot in the freezer right now -

[Birdbuff]

I have mine in raised beds. Rabbits, for me, are a non issue. It’s also easier to harvest and prune the bushes. Since the soil is contained, it makes it easier to amend as needed.

[Bgh]

The high bush blueberries will grow 5 ft high and spread branches out wide. So they need to start in in 6 to 8 inch peat soil. i used one 3.8 bag per plant.. yes this is a lot , but unless you have natural acid sandy soil, you plants will not do well. thus the peat moss.

[greatwhite]

I do have some big Pine trees on my property and hope the soil is at least close to neutral. I was going to line the trench with pine needles as well and use some Aluminum Sulphate and then line the rest with peat but was only planning to use 2.2 cubic feet of compressed peat.