How To Plant Blueberries

by Scarlet Paolicchi

4 Materials

$40

45 Minutes

Easy

Early spring is the best time of year to plant them blueberries. You will want to wait until the last frost date has passed for your time zone and then feel free to get them in. It is wonderful to have bushes that produce a larger crop of blueberries to be enjoyed each year. You will love eating your fresh blueberries that are full of antioxidants either fresh off the bushes or in treats like blueberry hand pies. Here is how to plant blueberries.

Gather your supplies- 2 or more blueberry bushes, rich soil, shovel, and peat mulch. You will need at least two blueberry plants of different cultivars so they can cross-pollinate. They should have these available at your local nursery since it is common knowledge amongst gardeners that these plants have to be cross pollinated in order to bear blueberries. This is the most important tip for how to plant blueberry bushes.

Choose a sunny location. Blueberries like the sun and they produce more fruit in the sun.

Choose a sunny location. Blueberries like the sun and they produce more fruit in the sun. Begin to dig a nice wide, deep hole and you can use your potted plant to check your progress. The hole should be deeper and wider than the pot itself so you can add some rich soil under and around the plant.

Once your hole is big enough, remove the blueberry bush from its pot and set it into the hole with some nice rich soil under it. Fill around the blueberry bush with rich soil as well pressing the loose soil down to get out any air pockets. Then cover the a peat mulch because blueberries like acidic soil.