Garden Blueberries - The Secrets Of Growing

2024 Author: Sebastian Paterson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:47

Berry crops in all their wide variety, it seems, have already firmly and forever settled in our gardens, occupied our golden hectares of land, have grown and give yields. Undoubtedly, the vitamin benefits of the fruits of these plants, they help to strengthen the health of gardeners, to fight diseases.

The cultivation of blueberries is nothing new abroad. There, this culture has long been industrial, profitable. Its fruits can be found freely in city supermarkets. In our country, blueberries are still the property of individual enthusiastic gardeners.

Exhausted by worldly vanity, tiring hard work, a person in his garden finds solace in berries dear to the heart and so dear to the body - bright scarlet like raspberries, yellow like sea buckthorn, green like the king of gooseberries, black like currants and, of course, in sky blue, like honeysuckle and blueberries. If you won't surprise anyone with the first berries from this list, then you can still surprise many with blueberries. This culture is multivitamin, relatively easy to care for and very interesting. It is here that, when growing it, you can kill two birds with one stone - and surprise your neighbors with outlandish berries, and pamper your body with a variety in the season when its bush, like a New Year's tree, is covered with balls of berries, and in winter, when caring master's hands get out of the cellar yes will open a jar or two of the most fragrant blueberry jam.

In culture, tall blueberries are cultivated, it differs from the familiar to many blueberries in marsh or marsh growth, and in a more calm, docile nature. It will not die on ordinary soil, it will humbly grow and give generally good harvests, but in all its glory it will open before you only on acidic soils. Perhaps, it is precisely in this property that lies the lack of a rush demand for plant seedlings?

Although true connoisseurs and lovers of blue berries - blueberries, this does not stop. For a long time, to acidify the soil, amateur gardeners used improvised means, literally everyone could be given a Ph. D. degree for a correctly set experience. Someone plentifully watered the soil with acid from a battery, someone diluted citric acid powder and abundantly “flavored” with them the area that had been sacrificed to the majestic blueberries. Both those and others were right, well, what else could they do?

Now, when the twenty-first century is outside the window, you can act less blasphemously and use sour peat for the full production of blueberry berries. It is sold everywhere and is inexpensive, and so that the soil is neutral or, even worse, alkaline does not dissolve it without a trace, the hole in which the seedling is placed and covered with acidic peat is pre-compacted with ordinary film as for sheltering greenhouses. Polyethylene dissolves in the soil for an extremely long time - it will be enough for your lifetime, thereby helping blueberries to grow actively. Well, and all you have to do is choose the variety you like and take good care of the crop, collecting stable yields.

By the way, about the varieties of blueberries. To date, a fairly large number of them have already been created, there is plenty to choose from: this is the large-fruited and tall grade Rankokas, the amazingly tasty Erliblu variety, the romantic Weymouth variety, the good old Blurey variety and the Jersey variety known to everyone for its winter hardiness. All these varieties will feel good in the center of Russia, and even a little further north. If you fear for your harvest, then just cover the trunk circle with sour peat in autumn, throw more snow on the plants, or, if the frost does not want to be friends with the snow, cover it with light and reliable lutrasil.

The main thing when growing blueberries is not to be afraid to take risks, you will have to run around with a watering can during a drought period, fight with weeds when the plants are still very young and even drive birds that adore overripe fruits. But all the effort is worth these large and surprisingly tasty, juicy, nutritious and healthy berries of tender blueberries. It is worth eating a small handful of its berries during the season, and you will forget about headache, lack of appetite, nervousness and eye fatigue, and your blueberries will tighten up your immunity well. They say that 50g of fresh or frozen blueberries per day is the first step to perfect health.

If we talk about the harvest, then the first beads of berries ripen in sultry August, usually when the first leaves dressed in autumn dress are torn from the trees. The ripening period of each bush stretches for about a week. This will help you enjoy fresh, with a thin waxy bloom of rich bluish-purple color, fruits for a longer time.

When collecting blueberries, take your time, do not use large containers for harvest, it is better to take those that can hold no more than a kilogram, otherwise the upper heavy berries can crush those below, in cramped conditions. Alas, such fruits will not lie at all, but whole, and even plucked a little ahead of time, can lie for a month in a simple household refrigerator.

Nikolay Khromov, researcher, candidate of sciences GNU VNIIS im. I. V. Michurina Russian Agricultural Academy, scientific secretary of ANIRR Photo by the author