Facts, Tips and Tricks to Growing Blueberries

Want to grow your own superfood? Maybe you needs some tips or tricks to increase berry production on blueberry plants? Or maybe your just curious to how blueberry plants grow! No need to look any further. 

Check out my latest article on Hubpages called "Facts, Tips and Tricks to Growing Blueberries"

In this article, I explain some cool facts associated with growing blueberries while also giving some tips and tricks I've picked up over the years. I also share my own experiences growing this superfood. Blueberries are an excellent addition to any container garden, backyard garden or landscape. It's definitely worth growing, especially when it comes time to harvest the delicious berries. 

Enjoy the facts, tips and tricks! Hope it leads to your own mini blueberry production in your own backyard! 

Awesome Blueberry buds!

On this beautiful spring evening I just noticed the really cool blue and red buds on my sunshine blue blueberry bushes! The look so cool!

Hurricane Preparation! 10/27/12

Hurricane Sandy is on her way to pound south western CT with hurricane force wind gusts, rain, storm surge and power outages. The storm is arriving on Monday October 29, one year to the day of "snowtober" (an early and destructive freak snow storm, where trees still had leaves!).

Saturday the 27th I spent some time prepping my garden stuff. Since we had an early frost this year most of the preps were cleaning up and winterizing. Here's what I did:

-Put all pots away in the shed
-Picked basil seed pods for drying and gathering seeds
-moved potted blueberry bushes into basement
-moved potted rosemary plant into basement
-moved new, and yet to be planted blackberry bush into basement
-I was surprised to pick some hot peppers 7 to be exact!
- put all bamboo stakes in garage

My potted Blueberry Patch!

New Growth on one of the Blueberry Bushes with Raindrop

I think it might be dead!

After the trouble with drainage and then repotting I think my blueberry bush may have died! I still have one left but this will definitely have implications on next years crop!

Problems with a Blueberry Bush

The precipitation this summer has been strange bouncing back and forth between moderate drought and normal conditions. However the very end of July and August so far has seem wetter. It's not just that we have gotten a decent amount of rain, but we gave gotten this rain in torrential downpours which doesn't evaporate that quick in high dew-points. I began to notice one of the blueberry bushes pots was collecting water at the top and I would occasionally have to tip the pot to empty it. The bush didn't seem impacted by it at first. However after torrential downpours last week, the pot flooded, leaving standing water for days! This did have an impact on the bush, browning and killing a lot of the new growth! So I had to empty the bush from the pit remove the water and a lot of the soil. To my surprise I had forgotten to punch holes in the bottom of the pot, which was trapping the water! Such a STUPID mistake!! After pinching holes in the bottom and replanting the bush I trimmed off the dead branches. The bush isn't as pretty anymore but hopefully it will come back!