Bundle of Three Blueberry Plants

Mix of 3 Blueberry Varieties, Vaccinum corymbosum

We choose 3 of the most popular blueberry varieties that also cross-pollinate well.

Most blueberries are reasonably self-fertile, but not all, and cross-pollination tends to improve the yield and quality of fruit on all varieties.

The pictures above are examples only, your mix may vary.

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Features

• Size: to 1.5m
• Fruit: large, purple
• Taste: sweet
• Use: mainly eating fresh, decent for cooking
• Picking: end July-mid Aug
• Freezes & travels well
• Self-fertile
• Spacing 1.5m

Growing Blueberries

All blueberries need acidic soil or a pot filled with ericaceous compost to grow well. So it's probably easier to grow blueberries in a pot if your soil is above pH 5.5 - most garden soil is.
Make sure the soil is both moist and free draining: blueberries hate to dry out.
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.

Pruning is simply a matter of removing any dead, diseased or damaged branches back to the base. You can do this at any time, but maybe best after fruiting to avoid any damage to the berries.