Anyone grow blueberries?

[fishin coyote]

Great info, thanks!

Question on PH.

My soil is 8ish. I planted a dozen or so bushes this year so they are in the process of establishing. How do you make PH changes to existing plants? I hear that adding elemental sulpher is good, but that you are supposed to wait a month to avoid root burn.

I have heard piling on sawdust/peat moss/pine needles at the base of the plants can lower PH, but it is a slow process. It is a long way to go from 8 to 4.5/5. I was toying with blending in small amounts of sulpher to the top soil to kickstart things, but that could be dangerous.

It also freezes hard here so I was planning to put peat and straw at the base before winter hits anyway. I will be re-applying the peat in the spring.

In that case I would put them in raised beds. Something simple with the box made out of 2x6s is usually sufficient.
The bushes will grow in a wide variety of soils although fruit production may suffer until they get conditions that they favor.

 

[dieselscout80]

Sounds like growing blue berry plants is a lot of work! Once you get a fruit set, the birds will clear you out.

Plant a peach tree! We get 500 peaches per tree. Peach trees grow like weeds. You do have to spray though

Here in SC I can grow both peaches and blueberries. The red clay here is acidic and I don’t do much to to get blueberries to grow and produce good.

Peaches grow and produce but the bugs always seem to tear up the peaches.

The blueberries always taste great and when I get peaches they are very tasty too.

What do you spray on your peaches?