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Old 20-02-2008, 07:03 PM posted to rec.gardens
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Default Recommendations on online merchant for blueberry bushes and grapevines?

Scott Hildenbrand wrote:

Sounds like you got a heck of a deal.. I checked several locals
and they don't have anything worth while.


I don't think you should give up. Expand your search, try calling
nurseries in and around the next large city.

I agonized all winter over where to buy my blueberry plants, checking
every web site that looked promising. I finally settled on one but
when they said they were going to bill my credit card and not ship
until they were paid I canceled my order. That's when I decided to
check local nurserys and found just what I was looking for right
nearby, I shopped there many times but it never occured to me that
they'd have blueberry plants, probably because they were located a
long way from their main entrance and I just never noticed them.

Here they are the day I planted them, spring 2006:
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http://i25.tinypic.com/30vi3wo.jpg

http://i29.tinypic.com/ziocyc.jpg

Spring 2007:
http://i31.tinypic.com/r76c6d.jpg

http://i27.tinypic.com/2gtoj09.jpg

I got more berries than I expected last year and I was surprised at
how huge they were, most were the size of a nickle, and fresh picked
they tasted wonderful, nothing like those from the stupidmarket. I'm
anticipating a bumper crop this year. I'm glad I didn't settle on
those teensy blueberry plants, they don't seem to grow very rapidly so
I would probably have had to wait a few years for my first berries.
Don't give up.