Hi

I am thinking of attempting to grow bilberries (not blueberries) in my back
garden in Oxfordshire. I have a conveniently bricked-round, slightly
elevated, area in the back garden of a reasonable size and in a reasonable
part-shade/part-sun (depending on time of day) position. From picking
bilberries, they generally seem to grow on hills (not necessarily high up),
often amongst heather and there is usually a kind of moss over the ground
aswell.
From this I would conclude that they like moist enviroments and I seem to
remember that heather likes a certain soil type, so does that mean
bilberries do aswell?
If they do require a special soil I was thinking I could dig out a couple of
feet of the existing soil and replace it with a soil/compost they like, but
would that be enough? Perhaps after diggin out the 2ft of soil I could put
an inch of concrete down and then put the favoured soil on top, so that the
bilberry roots don't grow down into soil they don't like!

Any guidance would be much appreciated.

Regards
Bigus