I have 3 blueberry bushes and they just will not thrive. I've tried
everything, and if I let the weeds go around them, they all become
huge compared with those elsewhere in the yard, so it is not a
nutrient problem. I raised them up in a raised bed to improve
drainage. No difference. No new growth seems to come on them. They
get sun from about 10:00 am to 3:00 p.m. They don't get any flowers,
except the few on the O'Neal.
Any suggestions?
Kira

I have some in partial sun that produce almost nothing, while those in
Full sun have given me a bumper crop.

Hmm. It's odd that the weeds grow better there than elsewhere, wonder if
the pH is different there than the rest of the yard, and if it is too sweet.
Have you tested the yard and blueberry bed soils?

I only use azalea/rhododendron fertilizer for my blueberries, because they
want acid. I mulch generously with pine straw or oak leaves.

Mine are on a square lot that is exactly 2 acres, and with TALL pine trees
(loblolly) on every side of the lot but the south. So, they get shade till
about 10 AM and shade again after 2:00. My "bushes" are about 30 years old,
though! And some old variety, because the original rooted shoots they were
started with came from the original owner's grandmother's birthplace in
Lumberton.

You made me hungry. Off to pick blueberries!!!

laurie (Mother Mastiff)