Grow Your Own Berries
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- Choose from 3 tasty fruit bushes for the garden or allotment
- Delivered gift wrapped and boxed with a handwritten greetings card
- Order by 3pm for next day delivery
This set of young fruit bushes would make a perfect gift for anyone who likes to grow their own. As you'd expect at this time of year, they have now mainly dropped their leaves for winter but it's still a great time to plant out fruit bushes.
Choose from 3 tasty and well branched fruit bushes that can be planted out in the garden or allotment or potted on to bigger pots for the patio.
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So happy with the product. It was a gift for my dad and he was super happy!
Nice choice of 3 x fruit plants.
Large, healthy beautiful plants
These instructions are sent with the plant gift
Also known as Bilberries, blueberry bushes produce delicious berries, great for fruit salads, pies, jams and of course Muffins. This blueberry bush is a heavy cropper and will do well in a sunny or partially sunny spot in the garden.
Blueberry plants need a moist well drained acid soil (a ph of 4.0-6.0 is ideal) to crop well, but they will also do well in a pot on the patio. Blueberry plants have a very fine shallow root system making them susceptible to drying out. Water thoroughly through out the summer to ensure the soil remains moist. A thorough weekly drench should be fine in the ground, but if in pots you may need to water your blueberry bush more often. If you find the soil is drying out between watering or if you will be away for a few days, you can always stand the pots in a shallow tray of water.
Blueberry bushes do not need much feed, but will benefit from a high potash feed in spring time, and a general purpose balanced feed a couple of times through the growing season. Over the summer, the white bell shaped flowers will develop into plump blueberry fruits ready for harvesting in August.
Problem solving:
The most common source of problems with blueberry plants is under watering it is essential not to let the fragile roots dry out. Water regularly and thoroughly. Blueberry bushes are generally quite resistant to pests and do not need pruning. The fruits are ripe when they have turned a deep purple black and can be washed and eaten straight from the bush. Please note these plants are deciduous and it is normal for Blueberries to drop their leaves for winter.
