Having your own harvest of sweet, blue -violet fruits. Many gardeners long for her. That is why the popularity of garden blueberries is growing. But can the land in the garden even suit them? “It is going to grow garden varieties of blueberries and when you try, you can really get the flood,” says Jana Bucharová in a podcast.
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You may have tried it and you are still not happy with the result. Maybe you even kicked a few bushes. But that’s not how it doesn’t. “The cultivation of the original forest blueberries in the garden almost never goes well,” says Jana Bucharová, expert of the magazine Recipe for garden themes. “But if you have a garden blueberry, you need to take care of a few basic rules.” Then, according to her, you will definitely see the crop.
Nice to the sun
Maybe you have the idea that you plant blueberries nicely in the forest of the garden. But that doesn’t have to be a good idea. “To grow, they need enough light. So even in the forest they need to be more of a clearing,” the expert explains. At the same time, however, blueberries will appreciate the protected habitat, where it does not blow much. So near trees, or perhaps walls, they will be better than in the open.
Essential nutrients
For a proper harvest is then important moisture. And not only watering, but also a substrate that does not dry out. Therefore, it is good to mulch blueberries, for example, pine leaves or sawdust from coniferous trees. At the same time, they need enough nitrogen and fertilizers are needed exclusively by acidic fertilizers, preferably for blueberries. They just have enough specific requirements.
Really acidic
They have been related to the recently discussed additive to the substrate. Peat is only a very slowly renewable source, and since it has been very wasting in the last decades and supplies thinner, not only the gardeners try to retreat from it. Mostly in the substrate it only works as a lightener. But blueberries are one of the few plants that really need it for good growth.
“If you do not have a forest, do not be afraid to use peat for blueberries, deserve it,” recommends Jana Bucharová. “You can also replace it with composted needles or bark. But be aware that the properties of the substrate change over time and need to measure the real acidity of the soil.”
