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Growing garden blueberry

Blueberry garden reaches considerable size — from 1 to 1.8 m. In appearance and taste of the berries close to the forest blueberry, but bigger, more intense blue colour, juice slightly colored, and very sweet.





To get from blueberry bountiful harvest, at planting and in the care necessary to fulfill the four basic requirements for growing conditions:

1. Sunny spot, preferably sheltered from prevailing winds;
2. Acidic soil, pH range of 4.0 to 5.2, because when the acidity is close to neutral blueberries grows and develops slowly;
3. - Drained soil; if planting in heavy clay soil in the landing pit drainage arrange; if the water table at the level of 50-60 cm, then plant the bushes should be on artificial mounds. The blueberry — demanding to moisture culture. Upon entry into fruiting at 3-4 years of age for the formation of the crop needs regular irrigation;
4. Moderate fertilizer; blueberries are no good organic fertilizer (manure, ash) and compost animals, and only acid peat, sawdust of conifers.

 

Planting blueberries

Blueberries are fairly undemanding, but caring for seedlings and adult plants has its own peculiarities.

As planting material is used two or three-year blueberry bushes with a well developed root system with a few strong shoots formation.

Place blueberries need a Sunny, wind-protected, with a light, acidic peat-sand and peat-bog permeable soil (pH of 4.3 and 4.8).

If it is not sufficiently acidic to acidify it some fertilizer. More gentle would be the Strait of the soil solution of the Radiance-1 in a dilution of half a Cup (100 ml) in a bucket (10l) of water a week before planting.

It is also necessary if you have alkaline or neutral soil to bring them to an acidic environment.

For the food acetic acid (not concentrated or some other!) mixed with water: 100 g of acetic acid in a bucket of water 10-12 L. Then carefully poured around the Bush, it is strictly forbidden to pour to the hive as this can burn the roots and the plant will die.





Also, acidic soil you can take:

1. In the swamp scoop in the peat bog. But we must remember that some of the peat bogs alkaline.
2. The pine. Under the trees remove pine litter and scrape the black earth. It will be sour.
3. The vet will buy "colloidal sulfur" and put it in tree trunks circle.

It is known that manure and ash is contraindicated blueberries. The latter due to the alkaline reaction. When planting for a single Bush to prepare the so-called "wells". To do this, dug a pit with a diameter of 1.0-1.2 meters and a depth of about 60 cm, which is filled with peat — sand mixture (peat moss — 3 parts sand — 1 part), and "well" for planting one Bush blueberries ready. You can also add a bucket of humus or compost, sawdust, pine litter.

The distance between the blueberry bushes should be not less than one meter (the roots can "strive" to grow over the edge of the landing pit, and this is undesirable), and the rows are around 2-2. 5 meters from each other. Between the rows is laid a layer of sawdust about 10 cm thick.The seedling is planted so that after the ground subsidence soil was buried at 5-10 cm.

To plant blueberries should be the area where there are no water stagnation, and water moderately. It is important to prevent the drying of the upper soil layer (0-20 cm), and at the same time not too wet its.

It is best to plant seedlings in the spring, but seedlings with closed root system (container) can be planted in the summer.

Before planting you need to land in the container, where it grows seedlings was wet. After planting should be watered.





Care of blueberries

It is necessary, after planting, mulch the soil surface around the hive with sawdust layer thickness of 10 cm. This will allow you to solve a number of problems. First, a layer of mulch will help eliminate weeds, and second, adjust the water-air and thermal regime of the topsoil (i.e. the soil is not dry and does not overheat), and thirdly, it will improve the lighting of the Bush, in fourth, will help to fight diseases, etc. in addition, mulching improves soil structure, prevents compaction, prevents erosion. All these factors provide a good development of the root system of blueberries. That, in turn, provides a good increase overhead fitomassy and increase yield.

Weekly recommended to shed blueberry a 1:1000 solution (1 tsp per bucket (10 l) of water) of the drug Glow-1 and Glow-10 alternating them, and also to spray 2 times a month with a solution of Radiance: 2st.per bucket (10 l) of water.

Blueberries are quite hardy and can tolerate spring frosts. But to the shoots died in autumn, they can be protected with film or fabric. To cover the bushes in the absence of snow cover and the temperature drop below -23..-25 °C. At the time of ripening blueberries should cover with a net or agroplanas from birds, which really taste the berries.

 

Pruning blueberries

Pruning is done every spring, once the snow melts. Old branches are removed at ground level, viable shoots are cut and the crown is trimmed in order to rejuvenate. Proper pruning increases the size of berries improves the appearance of the product and contributes to the accumulation of sugar and vitamins.

Blueberry yields fruit on shoots of the previous year. The young bushes in the spring enough to remove the ends of shoots damaged by frost and weak and decumbent shoots. In adults, fruit-bearing bushes in addition to weak, sick and low-lying shoots are periodically cut at ground level shoots over 4 years, leaving 6-8 strong perennial.





The harvest

Mature blueberries 2-3 months and can be on the Bush for up to 10 days. 3A the growing period is 3-6 fees of ripe berries.

 

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