Comments on: Grow Blueberries In Your Los Angeles Garden! http://movingmountainsdesign.com/growing-blueberries-in-losangeles/ los angeles home staging and interior design Mon, 14 Jun 2010 16:30:52 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Michelle Minch http://movingmountainsdesign.com/growing-blueberries-in-losangeles/comment-page-1/#comment-14 Michelle Minch Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:24:12 +0000 http://losangeleshomestaginginfo.com/?p=226#comment-14 Lucky you, George! Hopefully the ground around your new found blueberry plant was properly prepared with lots of peat moss (acidic) or an acidic planting mix. If you are going to plant more blueberries in the ground, make sure the soil is heavily amended with peat moss. Commercial blueberry growers in California actually amend the soil with <strong>sulfuric acid</strong> to get the right pH balance! If you are going to use commercial fertilizer, then use one for acid loving plants like camellias and azaleas. Blueberries like lots of sun, but I find mine do best with light shade in the late afternoon here in Pasadena where it can get very hot in the afternoon. If the area near your other blueberry bush meets these sun requirements, then you should plant your new plants near by. You want them close enough so that bees pollinating the flowers of one, pollinate the flowers of the other. But you want a little space between them so it makes it easier to harvest your delicious blueberries. Mine are planted in half barrels so that the plants are about 4' apart (the barrels are about 1' apart). Choose blueberry plants that are a different variety from the one you already have. You can bring a branch with a few leaves to compare to your local nursery, or you can buy 2 new plants of different varieties. Blueberry plants produce best when there are at least 2 different varieties in close proximity. I purchased my blueberry plants from Burkhard's Nursery in Pasadena. I have also seen them sold at some Armstrong Nursery Centers. Lucky you, George! Hopefully the ground around your new found blueberry plant was properly prepared with lots of peat moss (acidic) or an acidic planting mix. If you are going to plant more blueberries in the ground, make sure the soil is heavily amended with peat moss. Commercial blueberry growers in California actually amend the soil with sulfuric acid to get the right pH balance! If you are going to use commercial fertilizer, then use one for acid loving plants like camellias and azaleas.

Blueberries like lots of sun, but I find mine do best with light shade in the late afternoon here in Pasadena where it can get very hot in the afternoon. If the area near your other blueberry bush meets these sun requirements, then you should plant your new plants near by. You want them close enough so that bees pollinating the flowers of one, pollinate the flowers of the other. But you want a little space between them so it makes it easier to harvest your delicious blueberries. Mine are planted in half barrels so that the plants are about 4′ apart (the barrels are about 1′ apart).

Choose blueberry plants that are a different variety from the one you already have. You can bring a branch with a few leaves to compare to your local nursery, or you can buy 2 new plants of different varieties. Blueberry plants produce best when there are at least 2 different varieties in close proximity.

I purchased my blueberry plants from Burkhard’s Nursery in Pasadena. I have also seen them sold at some Armstrong Nursery Centers.

]]> By: George http://movingmountainsdesign.com/growing-blueberries-in-losangeles/comment-page-1/#comment-13 George Thu, 04 Jun 2009 07:01:44 +0000 http://losangeleshomestaginginfo.com/?p=226#comment-13 Early this year, we bought a house in Whittier, and lo and behold we found a blueberry bush bearing fruit just last Sunday (in the ground, no pampering). I want to grow more. Should I plant fairly close to the first plant? And where can I get a blueberry plant? Early this year, we bought a house in Whittier, and lo and behold we found a blueberry bush bearing fruit just last Sunday (in the ground, no pampering). I want to grow more. Should I plant fairly close to the first plant? And where can I get a blueberry plant?

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