TIP: By planting two or more blueberry varieties near each other, you will realize maximum berry crop yield.
Popular Blueberry Plants Varieties for Home Gardens...
Bluecrop - The most popular blueberry for home gardens! Produces heavy yields of sweet, big firm fruit, and bright red fall color.
Sunshine Blue - A dwarf blueberry that is ideal for growing in containers.
Toro - Grows to 4 feet tall and produces firm, sweet berries.
Calculate two blueberry plants for each person in your household!
Sunshine Blue - A dwarf blueberry that is ideal for growing in containers.
Toro - Grows to 4 feet tall and produces firm, sweet berries.
Calculate two blueberry plants for each person in your household!
How to Trim and Prune Blueberry Plants
To start your blueberry plants off right, proper pruning or trimming is necessary when the plants are young. The goal with pruning blueberry plants is to open up the plant and to encourage a strong root system and strong lateral branching.
Tips to Pruning Blueberry Plants:
- Prior to planting, prune young blueberry plants by removing small, weak branches.
- During the first year of planting, remove all flowers to encourage
good root and plant growth. - Prune Highbush blueberries in the fall after most of the leaves have fallen.
- Prune using a sterilized, sharp pair of quality pruners.
- Start by removing low growth around the base of the plant.
- Remove any stems which are blotchy colored and short.
- Continue thinning until 1/3 of old growth has been removed, leaving a plant with upright branches and air space between lateral limbs.
- Make clean cuts, removing any branches that cross each other, leaving the stronger and straighter branch.
- Do not prune Highbush blueberry plants in the spring if your wish them to produce fruit that same year.
- In the early spring, after the blueberry plants have budded-out, remove any dead wood or winter-kill.
Where to Buy Blueberry Plants Online:
Farm Fresh Living: Oregon based farm that offers twelve varieties of highbush blueberry plants that are container grown .
Stargazer Perennials Farm and Nursery: Large selection of pesticide-free grown blueberry plants.
Farm Fresh Living: Oregon based farm that offers twelve varieties of highbush blueberry plants that are container grown .
Stargazer Perennials Farm and Nursery: Large selection of pesticide-free grown blueberry plants.
