Blueberry Superfruit Collection
- Pick fresh, sweet, juicy Super Food from your own garden.
- Blueberries are packed full of vitamins, minerals and antioxidants, and they taste great.
- Wonderfully fragrant blossom in spring, delicious fruits, ready to pick from June onwards.
- Save a fortune with up to 5kg (over 10lbs) of mouth-watering fruit per bush each season.
- 3 superb varieties that are perfect for patio pots.
Product Description
This veritable super food is believed to carry all manner of health benefits and is recommended by health experts and dietitians accordingly.
Packed full of vitamins and minerals as well as antioxidants, they are not only really good for you but they taste great too!
Blueberries provide true season-long interest and will produce wonderfully fragrant tubular blossom in spring, followed by delicious fruits that form and colour up ready for picking from June onwards.
This collection will provide 3 months of harvest from June until September with each bush providing up to 5kg (over 10lbs) of fruit per season once fully established. Blueberries make brilliant patio plants and will grow perfectly in pots.
Do remember to use ericaceous (slightly acidic pH) compost though as all blueberries are lime intolerant. In autumn, the foliage will provide a bright flourish of scarlet colour before falling off for the winter.
The collection comprises 3 varieties, selected for their wide harvest period and ease of growth in your home garden.
Yellowberry: A real novelty, the warm yellow leaves are tinged with pink and orange tones and make for an altogether highly decorative plant for the kitchen garden.
Fruits July
Bluedrop: A new type of blueberry, 'Bluedrop' brings a new dimension to this popular berry. Everbearing with teardrop-shaped fruits (hence its name) you'll experience a taste sensation with an abundance of balanced, sweet and sharp blueberries.
Fruits June to September
Littleblue Wonder: Highly ornamental, in spring the bush becomes covered in pale flowers - so much so that it has earned this blueberry the name the 'Heather Blueberry'. Then in autumn, the foliage will provide a bright flourish of burgundy red colour before falling off for the winter.
Fruits June
What Is Supplied
Will grow to approx. 1-1.5m (3-5ft tall).
Plant Information
Top Tips
- While tolerant of shade, blueberries crop better in the sun.
- Cover plants with netting when in fruit, otherwise you'll just end up feeding the birds!
- Pick over the plants several times as not all the fruit ripens at the same time.
- Fruits can be left on the bush for a few more days after they turn blue for a more intense and complex flavour, when they'll also easily pull away from the cluster.
- Although self fertile and able to produce a good crop on their own, blueberries yield much more heavily if planted near another one.
Care Guide
- Plant in well-drained, acidic soil in a sunny, sheltered spot.
- If your garden soil has a pH over 5.5, your blueberry is best grown in a pot, in ericaceous soil. Keep it well-watered - don’t allow the soil to dry out.
- Water blueberries with rainwater if you can as tap water will gradually raise pH levels.
- Feed every month with a liquid fertiliser for ericaceous (lime-hating) plants.
- If growing blueberries in the garden, add plenty of organic matter such as pine needles or composted conifer clippings. Avoid farmyard manure as it will scorch the roots.
- Pruning is rarely needed in the first two years. After that prune in late Feb – early Mar, aiming to remove a proportion of old wood every year. Two year-old wood is the most productive.
- Take out any damaged, dead, and diseased wood and prune out low branches that will lie on the ground when full of fruit.
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