Blueberry Garden - Planting and Care

Blueberries are a berry rich in vitamins and very useful for the body. It's great to have such a source of health on your site. Of course, we can not say that care of blueberry garden is minimal, but the juicy and sweet fruits received in summer will necessarily become a payment for your efforts.

Place of planting blueberries

It is not difficult to remember how to plant blueberries correctly - we will compile a short list of those facts that must be taken into account:

• choose a sunny place - in the shadow of the berry grow small and sour;
• choose a place protected from the wind;
• planted in acidic and drained soil.

The last point is extremely important for blueberries, the cultivation of which is impossible in neutral soil. If the soil on your site does not meet these requirements, it must be acidified. Suitable solution of food acetic acid in the proportion of 100 g per bucket of water.

Planting blueberries

Usually planting blueberries is carried out in the spring, it is possible and autumn landing, but there is a great risk that young weak plants will freeze in winter. So, the seedlings descend into a pit about a half meter deep, a meter apart, and the distance between rows of bushes should be at least 2 meters. The soil must necessarily be loose, in the peat, sand. If the soil is clay, it will create an obstacle to the penetration of moisture and air, which will adversely affect the plant.

Care for blueberries

1. Blueberry garden, planting and caring for which involve considerable care, requires regular watering. It is impossible for the root system to remain in dry soil, but water stagnation must be excluded.
2. Also, care for blueberries is reduced to regular drainage of the land and weeding of weeds , which often destroy bushes.
3. The important question is how to feed blueberries. In no case it should not be about fertilizing with organic fertilizers that cause an alkaline reaction. Only mineral fertilizers are suitable and only for adult bushes.
4. Diseases of blueberry garden, unfortunately, is also not uncommon. This is gray rot , and fomopsis, and cancer of the stem. To reduce the risk of disease can be, for this purpose it is necessary in the autumn to spray bushes with fungicides, and in the spring with solutions containing copper.
5. Pruning is also an important part of caring for blueberry garden. It is carried out only on bushes older than 8 years. In the early spring, all old and weak branches are removed in order to rejuvenate the plants and get a more beautiful harvest.
6. Blueberry refers to frost-resistant plants, but if temperatures drop below minus 20 ° C, shrubs need to be covered with a cloth.

Reproduction of blueberries

Mostly, gardeners choose vegetative propagation for blueberry propagation, however, planting from seeds is also possible. First they need to germinate in a moist environment, then put on for a while in peat and when the first leaves appear, transplanted into the soil. And only after two years they can be planted in their place in the garden. Of course, the simpler way is to multiply blueberry cuttings. Since autumn, cuttings are kept in a cool room, and in spring they are planted in peat. In autumn, when the root system grows, they are planted in the soil.

If you have successfully coped with the previous items, then the blueberry bushes will certainly please you with a juicy harvest. Berries can be collected about 3-5 times for the whole harvest period.

It should be said that growing blueberries in your garden, you will not only get a useful plant, but also a very beautiful plant. In the spring, it dissolves charming white-pink flowers, becomes saturated blue in the summer, and in the autumn blueberry blossoms leaves and it becomes an ornament of the autumn garden!