Blueberry plants need acidic soil and you can make it to grow blueberries in pots. Many gardeners don’t have soil with a low pH and need to add ingredients like sulfur to lower pH. Gardener Scott shows how he prepares his acidic potting soil for growing blueberry plants. (Video #351)
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Do you plan to keep the blueberries in pots for the rest of their life? What do you do with the pots in winter to keep them from dying since thr roots aren't below ground?
Oh no! I bought bareroot 1 y.o. blueberries and planted them with the addition of elemental sulphur but i didnt add 6 months prior. Is it critical? Thanks
In spring of 2022, i made a big batch of Mels Mix. home made compost 33%, sphagnum 33% and perlite 33%. I didn't test it immediately but it grew beans, peas, radish and lettuce just fine. A few weeks ago (June 2023) i did a test of that raised bed. pH came back at 6.8.
Hi Gardner Scott, thanks for the info on blueberry soil conditioning. I will keep working with my blueberry beds to keep lowering the ph still. Keep up the good work.
Hi, I just found your site and this is the first video I've watched. I really enjoyed it, you're very easy to follow, and you give some really good information. Thank you !
Vinegar is also an organic carbon source used by bacteria mostly, it can lead to weird root problems when overdosed, which isn't very hard to do ime.
Excellent video 👍
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In NC, I had 4 blueberry bushes that came with the house. They grew in a shaded area under pine trees. I never watered them. All I would do was empty a bag of Sulphur around the plants once a year before flowering. These blueberries were as big as my thumbnail and sweet. Every year, I would harvest 25 to 30 gallons of blueberries a year. What we didn't eat fresh, I froze to use throughout the year. I miss those blueberries.
The birds never landed on these bushes as my cat would lay under them. Eventually, she gave up because the birds avoided those bushes permanently.
How are your blueberries doing? Have you done an update?
My berries are doing well. When we have leftover coffee, I dilute it a bit and supplement the drip system water with it. Vinegar? I use it to kill weeds. Caution trying to acidify with it. I mulch with cocoa fiber, but much of it has been rafted in salt water, so I soak it in vinegar then dry it before I use it – seems fine, plants are happy.
Try mixing grounded sumac
Good work.
I just have river sand and peatmos with agricultural sulfur, is it enough to grow blueberry in pot?
Thank you so much! This video was so helpful!
I live in eastern Utah and this video helped me adjust my soil for my blueberries.
What kind of blueberry plants would I get for zone 9
I live in Canada, and I love your channel. I grew up in Nova Scotia, and picked the native blueberries for my mother to use. A very different berry. Low growing. Now, decades later, I live in Southern Ontario. I am an old lady,living on two acres, with a few protected raised beds. I plan on growing what we call high bush blue berries. I was going to buy two ‘trees’ from a local commercial grower and plant some in a bed that is twelve by fifteen feet, amending the soil (sandy loam..not so acidic yet with soaked sphagnum peat moss to add. I will instead prepare one of my raised beds.. which is on an area which slopes, with peat moss and my compost. The ground here is notorious for being a weather challenge. The soil can have a freeze depth variance which is huge..from a foot in a mild winter,to five feet in a deep freeze. Climate change doth have its challenges. After watching your video, I plan on removing one foot of my bed soil in one three foot by eight foot bed, and replace it with a mixture of sphagnum peat moss (wetted with equal amounts of water because my soil is sandy loam, and on a hill, near its top, compost,(mine..household product, grass, leaf mix and remnant herbs and some small wood), and top some tree mulch from my own chipped trees. It is currently the second week of September here. I will be doing this next week. I will take the Ph levels after that. Hopefully I can transplant them in the spring. The vendor commended a fall planting, but the raised beds are not ready. The bed area I had prepared is still not right, but I can move my rhubarb there.
I think, you will spent more money on ingredients than it will cost me to buy 10 lb. blueberries from a farmer, just saying
I wonder if unused coffee grounds are pretty acidic, I’ve got a bunch of unused coffee grounds that’s most likely will never get used. But I also have elemental sulfer to acidify my soil so idk why I’m worried ab it anyway lol
Would a large emrald southern highbush do bad in a soil ph of 7 with acid lovers miracle grow or would you dig them up?
Can you show the results?