Thanks for the education. What do you do if the plants die or just left in a field if you decided they were no longer your thing. Still have to pay every year? How may years do you have to pay? 7 years tell they are prime then at some point they go down hill.

Would really have to be exceptional to catch my interest with the extra hassle and restrictions. Then again it it it was not worth it growers would not buy them.


Guess you could have had them shiped to a French middle man/friend then shaped to you.

Animal manure will not help acidify soil. In fact too much animal manure will build up salts which blueberries are sensitive to.

The best way to get ground ready for blueberries is to acidify with sulfur at least one year in advance and then test for soil pH. You want the pH at 5.2 or less. In calcareous soils is will be tough but I think it can be done. I would incorporate about 3-4 inches of sawdust into the soil before planting too. Sawdust will be about 5.5 pH and will help make a good high organic soil mix for the roots. Note that you will need to double the amount of nitrogen at first since the sawdust will be robbing it. We use either fish emulsion or feather meal in our operation.

We are blessed with the best blueberry bushes I've ever saw. My dad bought his place 40 years ago and they were 7 mature bushes already there( not sure the variety). And we average getting around 30 gallon a year off these 7 bushes, and the first ones to ripen will be almost quarter sized and I've never tasted any as sweet. We have bought other plants over the years but that don't produce like the original ones