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Recommendations on online merchant for blueberry bushes and grapevines?
On Feb 20, 2:18�pm, Scott Hildenbrand
wrote: Sheldon wrote: 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: http://i25.tinypic.com/2a0dp1h.jpg 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. Wow... Nice crop off a little plant.. I was amazed myself, I figured maybe enough for one bowl of toasties but I got at least a quart from each plant. I'd actually ordered them already from an online source. I'm only doing 5 bushes so not going to hurt if it doesn't work out the way I planned. Now, for the back yard run, I'm planning on an Elderberry hedge 70' or so in length for privacy, fun and fruit. I'll see if I can get those local considering how many it will take and will expand to a 40 mile radius for finding a nursery. While we're on Blueberries.. Did you acidify your soil? I'm estimating mine to be 7 (will test soon) so most likely going to add sulfur to knock it down. I tilled in three large bales of peat moss, that's what I was told to do at the nursery. They said after the second year to bring in a few samples for testing. They didn't recommend over acidifying, can always add more if needed. |
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