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Liberty Blueberry Plants

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  • Size: 1.5m
  • Fruit: large, purple
  • Taste: sweet
  • Use: cooking/eating fresh
  • Picking: Aug-Sep
  • Our latest cropping variety.
  • Freezes well
  • Colour: purple
  • Spacing 1.5m
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Bareroot soft fruit is generally cut back hard before delivery to encourage strong regrowth from the base.

Pot sizes are measured by their volume in litres, except for the smallest size, 9cm / p9 pots, which are roughly half a litre. P9s benefit from extra care in their first year.

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Description

Liberty Blueberry Plants, Vaccinum corymbosum

A prolific little fruiter, Liberty will produce consistently high yields of medium-large berries throughout August and September. The berries are juicy and a pretty pale-blue, with an attractive silver bloom. They're perfect for either eating straight off the bush, warm from summer sun, or freezing and eating later. Packed with antioxidants and vitamin C, they're linked with a heap of beneficial health claims and hard to beat for a healthy snack, or to pimp up cakes, muffins and smoothies. What's more, in winter, a handful, gently heated and spooned over a bowl of porridge, is a great reminder of those long summer days, so we'd go as far as to say they're great for your mental health too. The bush itself is upright and healthy, to around 1.5m, with deciduous leaves. For more blueberry varieties, take a look here.

Features

  • Size: 1.5m
  • Fruit: large, purple
  • Taste: sweet
  • Use: cooking/eating fresh
  • Picking: Aug-Sep
  • Freezes well
  • Self-fertile
  • Spacing 1.5m

Growing Liberty Blueberries

Like all blueberries, Liberty needs acid soil or a pot filled with ericaceous compost to grow well. So it's probably easier to grow blueberries in a pot if yours is about pH 5.5. Make sure the soil moist and free draining, too. In terms of aftercare, net your plants as the fruits develop and ripen, or the birds will have them all. If you're growing in pots, water using rainwater, not tap, or this can affect the pH of the soil.

This blueberry variety is partially self fertile, although planting more than one bush will increase the berries your plants produce, so buy a couple and plant in pots, or 1.5m apart.

Harvest – from August to September – by pulling gently on the berries; when they're ripe they'll come away easily from the plant.

Take a look at our Guide to Growing Blueberry Plants.

In your garden

Blueberries, even self-fertile ones, fruit best when pollinated by other blueberry varieties, so growing at least three types in one location is recommended.

Did you know?

Originally from North America, blueberries were known as 'star berries' by Native Americans. Take a look at the end of a blueberry and you'll see why.

Planting Instructions

How to plant Liberty blueberries

Choose a spot with as much light as possible. Improve the soil from the hole by removing roots, weeds, large stones and other rubbish and mixing in about 25% by volume of well-rotted compost or manure.

Position your blueberry so its roots are spread out, wet them and sprinkle them with Rootgrow mycorrhizal fungi.

Then backfill the hole with mixed soil and ericaceous compost, firming it gently as you go. Water in thoroughly.

Read more about how to plant blueberries in the open ground here and in pots here.
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