You can hardly come up with classic blueberries in the woods anymore. Especially when it's a hot summer. But you don't have to resign yourself to blueberry pie. When you have a garden, you can plant Canadian blueberries. If you don't underestimpe planting, the crop will be rich.
Canadian blueberries have been known to us for a few years. They are popular not only by the skyrocketing price of forest blueberries, but also by their size. While Canadian blueberries per liter need just over six hundred fruits, forest blueberries you need to find over eighteen hundred. Plus, their bushes are taller, so their backs don't suffer. But in order for them to succeed, they need to be given what they need right away when planting, otherwise you invest unnecessarily.
One is not enough
Right from the start, it must be said that you will not have as much work to do with planting Canadian blueberries with another fruit bushe. Blueberries are among the quail, and this means that they need acidic soil (pH 4.5 to 5.5). It meets peat. But don't even try to just put a little pouring around the bush. It would be useless. Canadian blueberries need to be planted directly into the peat. And when buying, do not forget that due to pollination it is necessary to have at least two bushes, preferably different cultivars. When you put the early and medium-wound varieties side by side, you will have blueberries for a longer time.
How to do it
For one bush you need a pit of 50 x 50 cm with a depth of about 40 cm somewhere in the semi-shade. They will only last in direct sunlight if you can water them regularly and in bulk. They'll grow in the shade, too, but the crop will be smaller than the horticulture promised. The distance between two bushes should be a meter to a meter twenty. The easiest way is to make a wide furrow for two or three bushes. In the pit you need to put non-skatted fabric or foil, which in several places you prefer to perforate. This creates an imported container to prevent alkay soil from getting to the peat.
Take peat by the bags
Put peat in the formed pit, preferably with the addition of ripe compost. In heavy soils, you better make drainage soil, for example, from sand. When the pit is half full, pour it down. Then add more. For one bush you need at least a bag of 50 l. But someone's giving double. You won't make a mistake by adding two to three tablespoons of blueberry fertilizer directly. Take the bush out of the pot and plant it as deep as it was. Pour again. Regular doses of water, preferably rainy, bush needs for good rooted. In a week or two you can trim the twigs.
Canadian blueberries are frost-resistant. They can handle temperatures up to -28°C. You can add a scoop of peat to a fresh bush, just like a rose is digging. In spring, put another dose of fertilizer on blueberries, and you can also add ripe compost. It is necessary to fertilize about two to three times during the growing season. Early spring, when the bush puts on the flower skins and after flowering. The plant has shallow roots, so do not dig it. Add new peat every year. From the third year, start trimming. To make sure there's about seven strong shoots left.
