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[garden] I can't seem to grow blueberries
#11
It took ours 5 years to really get established, and even then, we are limping along with two, whilst a third is going gang-busters. The soil has to be acidic. Not sure about the boggish nature of the soil, though.
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#12
In Yakima (Eastern Wa) and in eastern Or blueberries grow well where days are hot, nights are cool. My blueberry bush grows well, but I irrigate it at night. If I water it during the day it will get cooked.
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#13
I've had trouble with mine, too. I have a plant in my community garden plot that's never set fruit (that's a garden term I've been seeing while shopping on an awesome seed company site (http://rareseeds.com), and two more that I had in pots in my back yard. One of the two in my back yard made a few berries, I believe. The garden one has been there probably 3 years, the ones in the back yard maybe only 2.

About two weeks ago, I moved the two from the backyard to my garden plot. Hopefully there'll be a bit more action. I was there yesterday, and the larger of the three plants has some healthy growth already since moving it.

I have a blackberry plant at home, and it does pretty well. It's really only two "canes," but there are probalby 30 flowers on it, and they'll all be berries. I need to take it to my garden plot, too, because some other gardeners there have blackberries, and they seem to go crazy with growth and berries! I *love* blackberries! Even those annoying hard seed things. :-)
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#14
I let nature do all the work and I just pick the fruit. BTW, blueberries here are not growing in a bog:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palisade_Head
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