Posted: 3/27/2010 7:01:12 AM EDT
| as part of this years "home improvement" the wife and i are planting blueberries( about 6 plants) in addition to the normal garden. good idea or not ? |
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ya we did some research before deciding to plant them, they like acidic soil,. we have a well spaced patch of pine trees in the front yard, and planted them as an under brush. they will get sun for most of the day.
what we have been trying to do is replace the ornamental landscaping with plants that produce an editable product. roses excluded as they also provide a dense thorned barrier. the red raspberries we planted last year along the back fence line are coming back strong  both editable and thorny so far we have lots of herbs, chives, basil, rosemary, sunflowers ect. I just finished tilling the garden for planting the seedlings we started. lots of good stuff,.... tomatoes, okra,pole beans, wax beans, snow peas, cucumbers,squash, and what ever else the wife has started. not all to bad for living in the city limits of Charlotte 
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| I'm doing the same this year, but with four dwarf-sized plants (supposed to top out at 3') in the front-yard landscaping. I ripped out some bushes that had just become too overgrown and were blocking some windows, and will replace them with the dwarf blueberries. |
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Hey man what part of NC you in? I know some great places to get bushes around here... and if your close your more than welcome to see how my bushes (and all the other fruit trees... grapes... etc) look in the yard. I'm in wake forest feel free to let me know! charlotte |
| Depending on the size of bushes purchased you may have a very log time to wait before they grow to a respectable size. I have both wild and commercial varieties planted in my yard and figure by the time I'm tooold to go out into the woods to pick them my bushes at home will have grown to the point that they'll produce a few quarts a year. What others say about acid soil is right on. Some fertilizing may help too. A farmer I know uses cow manure. |
