How You Can Grow Buckets Full of Blueberries at Home:
Blueberries are packed with health benefits, they are filled with antioxidants and phytonutrients. They help improve memory, prevent age-related memory loss, they have a low glycemic index, regulates blood sugar levels, improve cardiovascular health, protect the retina from oxygen damage, and can help prevent cancer.
Blueberries require sun, water, soil, pruning, mulch and fertilize. Planting and maintaining blueberries is fairly easy, in fact, they’re once of the easiest berries to maintain. If you are wanting to plant your own blueberries you need to read the following tips.
-Use acidic soil with a pH between 4.8-5.5
You’ll want to watch out for high sulfur amounts in your soil, because it can disrupt the pH and soil microbes.
-Blueberries are a short root shrub
Which means that they don’t have to be placed very far into the ground.
-Blueberries require at least an inch of water per week.
Growing in Containers and Overwintering: http://hort.uwex.edu/articles/growing-blueberries-containers. Excerpt from this article:
Because containers do not provide adequate insulation from the cold, be sure to protect container-grown blueberries during the winter to prevent root damage. In mid- to late October, bury containers in the ground at a site where snow is likely to accumulate and where plants will be protected from cold winter winds. Mulch the soil surface with four to eight inches of straw in mid-November or cover the bushes with burlap.
Pruning Blueberries http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/1000/1430.html.
Transplanting Mature Blueberry Plants http://www.gardenguides.com/112707-transplant-mature-blueberry-bush.html
Cloning Blueberries from Mature Plants – http://homeguides.sfgate.com/graft-clone-blueberries-73089.html
Planting Blueberries in Pots
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http://buynongmoseeds.com/how-to-grow-buckets-full-of-blueberries-at-home/
http://groworganic.com/organic-gardening/articles/growing-blueberries-in-containers
http://www.hgtvgardens.com/blueberries/fruit-of-your-labor-five-easy-steps-for-growing-blueberries
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