If collecting wild blueberries in the forest is too tedious for you, you can also cultivate modern varieties of high-yielding cultivated blueberries in your own garden.
How to plant cultivated blueberries in the garden?
Cultivated blueberries are usually planted at a size of 30 to 50 cm. They prefer a sunny location and acidic soil with a pH between 4.0 and 5.0. Make sure there is a lateral distance of at least 1.5 meters between bushes and about 2.5 meters between rows.
What size are cultivated blueberries usually planted at?
Sowing has practically no importance for cultivated blueberries, as inexpensive plants of high-yielding cultivars are easily available from specialist retailers. These are usually planted in the garden at a height of around 30 to 50 centimeters and they usually bear their first fruit the following year.
Which is the right location for cultivated blueberries?
In contrast to the blueberry bushes native to the forest in this country, the cultivated blueberries from North America like it quite sunny. However, care should be taken to ensure that the soil has an acidic pH value between 4.0 and 5.0. Planting in rows has proven to be effective for optimal use of space; a hedge of blueberries can also enrich your garden.
How are the bushes planted?
If the soil has already been prepared with an acidic soil substrate, the planting hole for the shallow-rooted blueberries should be dug more wide than deep. When planting in the garden, you can also mix in a gentle long-term fertilizer such as horn shavings (€12.00 on Amazon). However, you should avoid all types of fertilizer that contain a lot of lime or disturb the acidic environment of the soil.
Can larger blueberry bushes still be transplanted?
In general, even larger blueberry bushes survive transplanting well if it is done in the fall. If necessary, pruning should be carried out to relieve the strain on the plant balance and the soil at the new location should be checked for its acidic pH value.
How do you propagate cultivated blueberries?
For blueberries, propagation via cuttings is relatively uncomplicated and faster than growing from seeds. To do this, the following steps must be carried out:
- cutting branches about 10 to 15 centimeters long in autumn
- deep insertion into low-lime substrate
- a uniform humidity, possibly promoted by a foil cover or greenhouse
When is the harvest time for cultivated blueberries?
Cultivated blueberries ripen between the beginning of July and the beginning of September. Usually each bush bears fully ripe and still white-green fruits at the same time.
What distance should be kept between cultivated blueberries?
Since cultivated blueberries can grow up to 2, 5 or 3 meters high, a lateral distance of at least 1.5 meters should be maintained between the bushes in the row. The rows should be about 2.5 meters apart so that they remain passable for maintenance and harvesting work.
Tips & Tricks
You can extend the harvest time of your blueberries by mixing early and late ripening varieties in the same location.
