Anybody here grow blueberries?

[Grampa Greenjeans]

Blueberries are super easy to grow. Way back when I worked for my Grandfather's orchard he had an acre of blueberries. He swapped the planting areas with raspberries as the soil test came back low ph for one of the areas. They did very well. I would heavily mulch them with sawdust from a sawmill. Ran trickle irrigation thru it. Sprayed with a soluble fertilizer as the mulch robbed the nitrogen.

I have 10 plants at home here in Georgia. I get sawdust from a local sawmill. I fertilized them with triple 12 before adding more sawdust. Have about 5 or 6 varieties. I have forgot which ones are which, but I just planted 2 Premier which I think I already have a couple more. I also add Epsom Salts to add flavor and make nutrients available. Last year I picked 8 gallons of them.

I dig a $20 hole, more like a wide v shaped hole which I incorporate some compost into the heavy clay soil. Then mulch to hold in moisture and keep weeds away. Also so I see it when mowing.

I figure the top ones are for the birds, the bottom for my chickens, and the ones in the middle are for me.

 

[Vanalpaca]

Blueberries are super easy to grow. Way back when I worked for my Grandfather's orchard he had an acre of blueberries. He swapped the planting areas with raspberries as the soil test came back low ph for one of the areas. They did very well. I would heavily mulch them with sawdust from a sawmill. Ran trickle irrigation thru it. Sprayed with a soluble fertilizer as the mulch robbed the nitrogen.

I have 10 plants at home here in Georgia. I get sawdust from a local sawmill. I fertilized them with triple 12 before adding more sawdust. Have about 5 or 6 varieties. I have forgot which ones are which, but I just planted 2 Premier which I think I already have a couple more. I also add Epsom Salts to add flavor and make nutrients available. Last year I picked 8 gallons of them.

I dig a $20 hole, more like a wide v shaped hole which I incorporate some compost into the heavy clay soil. Then mulch to hold in moisture and keep weeds away. Also so I see it when mowing.

I figure the top ones are for the birds, the bottom for my chickens, and the ones in the middle are for me.

We live next to a lime plant that is now closed down (past 10 years). It killed off all the bees and we used to go out and find a fine dusting of lime on the cars. Crops loved it. But now I want to grow blueberries. I got 2 varieties, Bluecrop and Blueray and put them in 1 gallon pots. The red leaves tell me the soil is not acid enough. I put ammonia sulfate granules in the dirt, and 1/2 peat moss, 1/2 my garden loam. They survived summer. They were small rooted plants. The BUNNIES ate them down overwinter. Now they have come back. Mostly green, some red leaf. So I need suggestions for potting them up to 4.5 gallon nursery pots! 50/50 peat and my sandy garden loam? I could scour the property for fall leaves but they are mostly gone. I have pine needles, short ones. I have wood chips (the pine shavings you get at the feed store for animal litter). I had some silver miracle grow around here somewhere. I also have a large amount of 1 year and 2 year composted cow muck from the barn... SUGGESTIONS to get them growing fast and thriving???