Growing Blueberries at Home

If you plan in growing blueberries at home, then you must know that they are plants that will stick around for a while and that they will be needing constant care and protection. First you need to make sure that your home garden is spacious enough to plant at least a few small rows of blueberry plants. For this, you need to measure the available space in your garden and then compare it to the standard blueberry distances between plants and rows. As general information, these distances are of about 10 feet for rows and 4 feet between plants.

After carefully setting up a space where you plan to place the plants, you can begin you growing blueberries journey. Planting the roots into a special moisture compound soil will help the plants get enough air and water and grow evenly throughout their life. But this is not enough. To have beautiful and constant crops, you must attend each year, at the beginning of spring, to every plant you have in your blueberry rows. A certain number of fruit canes are allowed in order to prolong the plant’s life, so each year that passes you will have to make sure each bush does not have more than 15 blueberry bouquets by cutting off the largest and oldest ones.

In addition to keeping to plants even and balanced, growing blueberries also involves the care and protection specific to most garden plants and crops. So, each year you will have to eliminate the unwanted wild plants that might interfere with your blueberry rows, to make sure there is no harmful agent in the atmosphere, such as chemicals form a factory or powerful synthetic insecticides and if bugs begin attacking you plants you will have to apply a special mild anti-bug solution onto each root and leaf, every two days, until the threat is gone, during the dry season.

Harvesting your blueberry crop is the most rewarding part of growing blueberries. But you will have to wait a while in order to get a nice juicy harvest. Home grown blueberries, opposing to wild ones, will give you crops only in their 3rd year. They do grow fruit canes in the first two years, but they will have to be removed to motivate growth in the future. Blueberries will not be really blue until they are fully-grown. This will occur in July – august, and after one or two weeks they will be ready for harvesting. An experienced blueberry grower would advice you to pick them up only after tasting them and do so in the early morning or late evening to ensure a succulent lasting aroma.