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- Grow and harvest garden blueberries yourself
- The advantages and disadvantages of garden blueberries
- Plant garden blueberries
- The care of garden blueberries
- Tips & Tricks
Grow and harvest garden blueberries yourself
As the garden blueberries are called the specially cultivated blueberries, which are only very remotely related to the here in moorland forests and clearings waking forest blueberries. These provide larger fruits and also form higher shrubs.
The advantages and disadvantages of garden blueberries
The lovers of forest blueberries do not want to know much about the garden blueberries, because they can hardly compete with the wild collected in terms of taste and vitamin richness. Nevertheless, garden huckleberries also offer other benefits in addition to a greater security against the fox tapeworm. These include in particular the following advantages:
Plant garden blueberries
Also for the planting of the garden hay berries originating from North America a suitable soil preparation is necessary in most gardens first. Since the plants need a rather acidic and lime-free soil with a pH value between 4.0 and 5.0 usually a cultivation in the pot or a large-scale soil replacement is necessary. For the ideal blueberry location, garden peat or rhododendron soil should be mixed with some sand and a small amount of horn shavings as a mild fertilizer. Since the blueberries are more broad than deep-rooted, when replacing the substrate, ensure that the plant hole is excavated appropriately. If, for ecological reasons, you do not want to use garden peat, you can also acidify a soil that is not too loamy and rather lime-poor with the mixing in of spruce needle compost and sawdust.
The care of garden blueberries
In a sunny spot, especially during the harvest season from July to September, make sure you have enough water. Since fruits are constantly ripening on the shrubs, regular harvesting every few days is recommended. If more blueberries crop up than can be consumed fresh, then you can enjoy jams, compotes and fruit juices.
Tips & Tricks
Cultivated blueberries for the garden grow much faster than their wild relatives in the bog forest. You should therefore keep a distance of at least 1 to 1.5 meters between each plant in the row when planting.