Super crop of blueberries!

Picked 2.75 lbs of blueberries this morning, the damp weather seems to suit them as they are nice plump berries. These came mainly from a single bush, we've another younger bush but it fruits a bit earlier and has almost finished fruiting.

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Nice Dave, always thought about growing a couple of blueberry bushes; any tips? :thumb:

 

Go for it!
Once established blueberries are a very productive crop. Ours produce berries for around about an eight week period. Fairly expensive to buy the plants, but ours have now just about paid for themselves. Certainly much more fun picking our own for free for breakfast than driving 12 miles to Tesco and paying through the nose!

Do best planted in the ground though will produce if planted in decent sized containers. Non-alkaline soil or compost is essental. Our garden soil is neutral to mildly acidic but when I planted ours I dug fairly large holes which I filled with ericeous compost. Bark chips used beneath ours to supress weeds help to add to soil acidity.
Keep mosit but avoid watering with tap water as in many areas of the country it may contain lime/calcium and just about everywhere it contains chlorine.
I feed ours with ericaceous liquid feed in early Spring and when fruit has set feed with comfrey fertiliser and/or tomato feed.

 

Super crop Dave I was going to reply to this post but you have answered my questions in yesterdays post.
I bought my first Blueberry Berkeley bush this July , I understand you need 2 different species of bush to maximise the crop . So I am buying another type this autumn when the nuseries stock them ,target price around here is £10. I just got a handful of blackcurrant sized berries from it this year - very tasty though . Do they improve with time Yours are the same size as the shop bought ones . I also need to keep mine in a containers , so I will pot up next spring into a bigger one. How hardy are they ? Will they need any special protection if we have another winter like last !! :runhills:

 

Very hardy plants Harry, ours survived a diabolical winter!
I hesitate to comment on the size of berries though this year we seem to have had the largest ever, but this could well be down to the wet summer and regular watering would have the same effect.
For about three years we had a single bush ( Goldtraube 71) and it cropped well. We added a second (Toro) two or three years ago but I can't honestly say that it has made a significant difference to the overall crop though it does extend the cropping season as it crops a couple of weeks earlier than the Goldtraube.

 

I love blueberries a lot. As a child we would go and pick them with a special "comb" in the woods not far from home and I was eating about half of them and putting half in the basket!

 

If adding a second bush has not increased the yield , I think I will stick with the single bush . Thanks for the info dave. I am sure I will find something else to psend my £10 on !