Raspberries & Blueberries!

Just been out and bought a raspberry plant & a blueberry bush. My raspberry plant is autumn flowering and i am led to believe this can be planted as a shrub and needs no form of support. Im not too sure with the blueberry bush, can anyone offer me advice on growing these, if i need any type of plant food or special soil?

 

blueberries prefer acid soil, so you'll need ericaceous compost if your soils alkaline. i give mine a general fruit fertiliser and an ericaceous feed as well - i don't know if i'm doing right though cos mine have only been in a year! I did have a few fruit last year and this year they are covered in flowers, so here's hoping!

The raspberries i grow are all summer fruiters, so i can't really help you there, but i would assume that you will need to give them some support and again a general fruit feed will be ok.
i'm sure there will be plenty of great advice forthcoming later tonight! :D :D

 

Marley wrote some really comprehensive growth instructions about Blueberries on a thread I started...can't seem to find it at the mo :rolleyes:

 

what is this fruit feed you speak of, not seen or heard of it before!

 

sorry andy, it was a fruit bush fertiliser that i bought from aldi last year. i can't tell you whats in it at the mo, i'm at work, but will dig it out over the next few days and see what its made up off.

 

Found the thread it's in edible gardening 02 March 07...Container Grown Fruit Trees

 

i just meant like a brand name, im not making it myself thats too much effort!!!

 

sorry once again, you don't have to make it, its a granular feed that you just spinkle around the plants! i meant i'd see if there was owt special in it - its probably Nitrogen (N), Phosphorus (P) and Potassium (K).