Thank you for this beautiful, mellow video. You are a wonderful storyteller and your writing is superb. I enjoy the scene shot perspectives and your hauntingly poignant music as well. Please keep teaching us!
Ahhhhh - the piano jazz chords just make this teaching video so unique. I'm researching blueberries for Oklahoma and ran across this episode. Totally the most authentic/genuine/thoughtful gardening video I've seen. Hope you guys are safe and well.
Summer 2018 I was able to score a bunch of clearance blueberries for $1.50.....the sad ones that are trapped in the hard clay cores and suffer in the sun in garden centers. There was still plenty of time to baby them, encouraging them to develop roots in large pots before inground transplant. They boomed and thrived until cooler weather set in, at which time I sort of panicked and put them inground without proper preparation. They lived.....but did not thrive at all. So I potted them again in an appropriate mix for ph using pine bark, peat and my compost. They handled it very well and I can't wait for spring to see how they're enjoying their new homes.
Thank you for this video! I love that you also post in the winter months, that really brings a ray of spring sunshine to me. Your videos are so aesthetic as well. I'm already looking forward to the next one!
Thank you. We just planted six Blueberry bushes - three different varieties with peat moss & pine bark - in large containers which were put into the ground three inches deep. Since these pots were black I painted white paint on the areas that the Sun hit. Top mulched with pine bark. J.
Somehow God always gives us what we need. Just last night I was thinking I need to look up how to manage my blueberry plants. I was going to do that today. I planted 4 blueberry bushes last year. Thanks for sharing the video! Perfect timing!
Not just me than! 😊👍 This has happened to me too. I agree, the Lord has indeed provided everything! Have a nice day! Hope the blueberries turned out well.🙏 Moira From England.
I live in Ontario, Canada. In spring of 2022, I saw only 2 bumblebees pollinating my blueberry bushes. I find that they are very picky as to which variety they will visit and which they will totally ignore. For that reason, I pre-ordered some mason bees to help with the pollination. We'll see if those bees, still in their cocoons, survive the shipping and if they will hang around and possibly nest in my bee house. It's going to be an interesting experiment. In preparation for the arrival of the mason bees, I planted lots of grape hyacinth in between the bushes as companion plants. Supposedly, they too like the acidic soil and bloom in early spring. Hopefully they will help to feed the increased population of pollinators. The bumble bees do a great job of pollinating my raspberries. I used to clean the fallen leaves, but after watching your video, I will leave them on the ground.
We planted 14 different varieties of blueberries a few years ago. Finally got to taste some this year and they were so good. Mulch is very important and keeps in the moisture, as well as keeps the plant from being saturated in water, also don't forget to check your PH level. Blueberries like low PH. Birds haven't bothered my blueberry plants. I guess they were too busy eating all my raspberries.
You were right on with your planting recommendations. Mix in plenty of peat. Blueberries can be grown in 100% peat. Wood chips on the top so long as they are not cedar will help keep the ph low. The problem comes when we water. Tap water has a ph much higher than blueberries prefer so the wood chips help.
Enjoyed the video. I appreciated the pollinator information a lot. Some of it I was unaware of. My neighbor is a bee keeper and has blueberries planted along his driveway that just sing with happy bees. You can hear them out to the sidewalk there are so so many. It's wonderful to walk by and listen to them. Question...do your plants ever get mummy berry? We get it here and it can be a real problem if mulch isn't applied each fall to suppress the spores that will billowing up fallen fruit and infect the plant's future crops. They are otherwise one of the easiest of all fruits to grow and certain varieties have gorgeous fall color too making the a good landscape plant. Another question...Do you prune them and if so how? I know it can impact their yield dramatically and isn't too hard to do, far less than say an apple tree. Dr. Ingram is from here in Oregon and was on staff at Oregon State University for several years. We were very fortunate to have her in the region and I had the pleasure of hearing her speak on the soil food web. If anyone has the chance to catch a talk by her do it...you will be glad you did. She is one of the best I know at taking technical scientific information and making it enjoyable to learn. You are so right on about the flavor of fresh picked blueberries. Livingvhere in Oregon, it is easy for me to find local fresh berries and many of us here can pick for free as some farms will allow you to pick in barter for free berries. I have tried growing them here on this property several times but haven't succeeded. Scratching my head over that one still, which is why I rely on farm grown. I freeze a lot of berries too and use them all winter. They cook up beautifully in desserts and are good to munch on frozen too. Hoping when I move I will be able to grow plants of my own, or better still, to have mature plants already there. Thanks again...
the micorhizal funghi lives in symbiosis with plants, it spreads through the soil and trades with plants what they need. so id put it everywhere. i got that from james prigionis vids.
Hello suburban homestead! This was probably the best video regarding blueberries on TH-cam, and I have a question... Can you grow blueberries in partial shade? Thanks
Your content has reappeared in my feed ... and the ads have a reasonable time now (so I don't skip them). By the way, I still enjoy your documentaries but I return to your body of knowledge, Siloé. In this case it is to re-learn about the blueberry and months before it was my need to learn to do a hugel. Thanks once again.
Happy to hear that. The videos are now starting to reappear in the feed precisely because I was lucky to have good response from the last 4 videos in a row, despite not posting often. Lots of viewers like you showed more interest in them than what I did last year.These last videos were much more engaging because they were longer and a good portion of viewers watched all of it. Also I allowed TH-cam to host as many ads as it sees fit, instead of just one in the middle as I used to do for the past year. Certainly TH-cam has an economic incentive to suggest videos where they can maximize ads and that people will watch them. That is how they make money. So I had to do these changes, otherwise all my content was on track to be forgotten in obscurity. My 2020 content was destroying the channel’s momentum, because a large portion of viewers just didn’t care much for it with incomplete watered down stories. People want to see transformative, informative or entertaining content, after all.
@@suburbanhomestead Es una buena noticia saberte prosperando a pesar de las vicisitudes, cual bambú en medio del monzón. My English is not enough today ... anyway, I am glad to know that the changes you made are bringing good results to you.
Muito linda Siloé. Eu tenho uma muda aqui. Mas, ela não se desenvolve bem. Já troquei a muda de lugar 3 vezes. Mais sol, menos sol...ela até deu alguns frutos no ano passado. Meu plantio e como o seu. Tudo aqui plantei no sistema de lasanha. Sem enxada. Meu solo é constantemente coberto. O outono e inverno são frios e secos. Não sei se seria porque molho pouco.
Great video. I just purchased 2 trees..one blueberry and elderberry.. Can I expect to harvest if planted in a large container. look forward to your response.
Blueberries thrive on new growth, so after harvest, hedge, hedge, hedge! They will spring new growth before winter, and it will harden off for setting new fruit the following year, if you continue to leave the old branches the fruit quality and quantity will suffer drastically!
No. I never pruned them. As far as I know you shouldn’t prune them, unless you think they are too big for aesthetic reasons. The bigger they are, the more they produce
We are blueberry growers and every year we prune out older wood. You want to make sure to keep the new wood bearing, if you don't prune, eventually the older wood won't have very many fruiting buds. You want to encourage new laterals to bear!
Is your soil naturally more acidic? Here in Idaho the soil is very alkaline and it is very hard to grow blueberries. My husband was wanting to plant blueberries but I am worried that they won’t grow hear very well. We had some friends that try to grow and blueberries and they added all kinds of things to the soil all the time and they hardly ever got any blueberries.
Maybe try raised beds or containers? Then you can add the acidic soil they like. I see a lot of UK gardeners growing blueberries in large pots so they can separate them and give them the soil they need. Blueberries are native to where I live, so they're easy to grow here. Also, you get better pollination and fruit production if you grow a few different cultivars near each other.
I just about can't eat store bberries, mine are younger and much less impressive but still ONE of my small bushes produces a lot and I'm getting better at mulching and so on. You can EAT those grape leaves!
This year I planted 2 bushes. The flowers were everywhere. Blueberries came. I picked the first rope one and it was good. The bids ate all the rest. So sad. Have an awesome week
Thank you for this beautiful, mellow video. You are a wonderful storyteller and your writing is superb. I enjoy the scene shot perspectives and your hauntingly poignant music as well. Please keep teaching us!
Thanks for the kind words
@0:37 lower left attached to the branch is a Preying Mantis cocoon.
Ahhhhh - the piano jazz chords just make this teaching video so unique. I'm researching blueberries for Oklahoma and ran across this episode. Totally the most authentic/genuine/thoughtful gardening video I've seen. Hope you guys are safe and well.
Summer 2018 I was able to score a bunch of clearance blueberries for $1.50.....the sad ones that are trapped in the hard clay cores and suffer in the sun in garden centers. There was still plenty of time to baby them, encouraging them to develop roots in large pots before inground transplant. They boomed and thrived until cooler weather set in, at which time I sort of panicked and put them inground without proper preparation. They lived.....but did not thrive at all. So I potted them again in an appropriate mix for ph using pine bark, peat and my compost. They handled it very well and I can't wait for spring to see how they're enjoying their new homes.
They appear to love pine bark and other acidic compost.
Thank you for this video! I love that you also post in the winter months, that really brings a ray of spring sunshine to me. Your videos are so aesthetic as well. I'm already looking forward to the next one!
I feel the same way!
I'm happy to bring some brightness to the dark winter.
Thank you. We just planted six Blueberry bushes - three different varieties with peat moss & pine bark - in large containers which were put into the ground three inches deep. Since these pots were black I painted white paint on the areas that the Sun hit. Top mulched with pine bark. J.
Somehow God always gives us what we need. Just last night I was thinking I need to look up how to manage my blueberry plants. I was going to do that today. I planted 4 blueberry bushes last year. Thanks for sharing the video! Perfect timing!
I hope you have success with them.
Not just me than! 😊👍
This has happened to me too.
I agree, the Lord has indeed provided everything!
Have a nice day!
Hope the blueberries turned out well.🙏
Moira
From England.
I live in Ontario, Canada. In spring of 2022, I saw only 2 bumblebees pollinating my blueberry bushes. I find that they are very picky as to which variety they will visit and which they will totally ignore. For that reason, I pre-ordered some mason bees to help with the pollination. We'll see if those bees, still in their cocoons, survive the shipping and if they will hang around and possibly nest in my bee house. It's going to be an interesting experiment. In preparation for the arrival of the mason bees, I planted lots of grape hyacinth in between the bushes as companion plants. Supposedly, they too like the acidic soil and bloom in early spring. Hopefully they will help to feed the increased population of pollinators. The bumble bees do a great job of pollinating my raspberries. I used to clean the fallen leaves, but after watching your video, I will leave them on the ground.
Beautiful video! What a beautiful bountiful blueberry crop! Lovely music, too!
They sure were delicious
We planted 14 different varieties of blueberries a few years ago. Finally got to taste some this year and they were so good. Mulch is very important and keeps in the moisture, as well as keeps the plant from being saturated in water, also don't forget to check your PH level. Blueberries like low PH. Birds haven't bothered my blueberry plants. I guess they were too busy eating all my raspberries.
Great video editing! Also love the content! Beautiful!
Thanks
nice mantis ootheca on the blueberry branch
You were right on with your planting recommendations. Mix in plenty of peat. Blueberries can be grown in 100% peat. Wood chips on the top so long as they are not cedar will help keep the ph low. The problem comes when we water. Tap water has a ph much higher than blueberries prefer so the wood chips help.
Ive always enjoyed blueberries!
Maybe l should give it ago.👍😊
Thank you for your advice, much appreciated.
Enjoy! 😉😋
Moira
From England.
The cinematography in your videos is always so, on point. Great video and advice. Do you prune them, or just let them grow wild?
Enjoyed the video. I appreciated the pollinator information a lot. Some of it I was unaware of. My neighbor is a bee keeper and has blueberries planted along his driveway that just sing with happy bees. You can hear them out to the sidewalk there are so so many. It's wonderful to walk by and listen to them.
Question...do your plants ever get mummy berry? We get it here and it can be a real problem if mulch isn't applied each fall to suppress the spores that will billowing up fallen fruit and infect the plant's future crops. They are otherwise one of the easiest of all fruits to grow and certain varieties have gorgeous fall color too making the a good landscape plant.
Another question...Do you prune them and if so how? I know it can impact their yield dramatically and isn't too hard to do, far less than say an apple tree.
Dr. Ingram is from here in Oregon and was on staff at Oregon State University for several years. We were very fortunate to have her in the region and I had the pleasure of hearing her speak on the soil food web. If anyone has the chance to catch a talk by her do it...you will be glad you did. She is one of the best I know at taking technical scientific information and making it enjoyable to learn.
You are so right on about the flavor of fresh picked blueberries. Livingvhere in Oregon, it is easy for me to find local fresh berries and many of us here can pick for free as some farms will allow you to pick in barter for free berries. I have tried growing them here on this property several times but haven't succeeded. Scratching my head over that one still, which is why I rely on farm grown. I freeze a lot of berries too and use them all winter. They cook up beautifully in desserts and are good to munch on frozen too. Hoping when I move I will be able to grow plants of my own, or better still, to have mature plants already there.
Thanks again...
They also love honeysuckle! Anything sweet smelling or aromatic in it's own way!
Thank you!🙌🏼
Excellent !
the micorhizal funghi lives in symbiosis with plants, it spreads through the soil and trades with plants what they need. so id put it everywhere. i got that from james prigionis vids.
Hello suburban homestead! This was probably the best video regarding blueberries on TH-cam, and I have a question... Can you grow blueberries in partial shade? Thanks
Your content has reappeared in my feed ... and the ads have a reasonable time now (so I don't skip them).
By the way, I still enjoy your documentaries but I return to your body of knowledge, Siloé.
In this case it is to re-learn about the blueberry and months before it was my need to learn to do a hugel.
Thanks once again.
Happy to hear that. The videos are now starting to reappear in the feed precisely because I was lucky to have good response from the last 4 videos in a row, despite not posting often. Lots of viewers like you showed more interest in them than what I did last year.These last videos were much more engaging because they were longer and a good portion of viewers watched all of it. Also I allowed TH-cam to host as many ads as it sees fit, instead of just one in the middle as I used to do for the past year. Certainly TH-cam has an economic incentive to suggest videos where they can maximize ads and that people will watch them. That is how they make money. So I had to do these changes, otherwise all my content was on track to be forgotten in obscurity. My 2020 content was destroying the channel’s momentum, because a large portion of viewers just didn’t care much for it with incomplete watered down stories. People want to see transformative, informative or entertaining content, after all.
@@suburbanhomestead Es una buena noticia saberte prosperando a pesar de las vicisitudes, cual bambú en medio del monzón. My English is not enough today ... anyway, I am glad to know that the changes you made are bringing good results to you.
Muito linda Siloé. Eu tenho uma muda aqui. Mas, ela não se desenvolve bem. Já troquei a muda de lugar 3 vezes. Mais sol, menos sol...ela até deu alguns frutos no ano passado. Meu plantio e como o seu. Tudo aqui plantei no sistema de lasanha. Sem enxada. Meu solo é constantemente coberto. O outono e inverno são frios e secos. Não sei se seria porque molho pouco.
Great video. I just purchased 2 trees..one blueberry and elderberry.. Can I expect to harvest if planted in a large container. look forward to your response.
Hello, suburban homestead! I love your channel, very calming and informative. I just wanted to know, what variety of blueberries do you have? Thx
Thank you. I bought it discounted and may have thrown the tag away, so I’m not sure.
Blueberries thrive on new growth, so after harvest, hedge, hedge, hedge! They will spring new growth before winter, and it will harden off for setting new fruit the following year, if you continue to leave the old branches the fruit quality and quantity will suffer drastically!
Thanks men 😊
You are welcome
Try cinnamon in the hole when planting. Is natural anti-fungal that helps reduce shock to plants :)
i love bueberries
Wow! Could they survive in the tropics?
I'm not sure if they do.
Do you prune them? Also how does your bush looks like a tree.. my deciduous blueberry shoots out canes but I prune the old ones.. is that necessary?
No. I never pruned them. As far as I know you shouldn’t prune them, unless you think they are too big for aesthetic reasons. The bigger they are, the more they produce
We are blueberry growers and every year we prune out older wood. You want to make sure to keep the new wood bearing, if you don't prune, eventually the older wood won't have very many fruiting buds. You want to encourage new laterals to bear!
Thanks Bibiane for your expert info. My bushes always increased in yield, so I never looked into it deeply.
Is your soil naturally more acidic? Here in Idaho the soil is very alkaline and it is very hard to grow blueberries. My husband was wanting to plant blueberries but I am worried that they won’t grow hear very well. We had some friends that try to grow and blueberries and they added all kinds of things to the soil all the time and they hardly ever got any blueberries.
Easier to add acid than alkaline. My soil in western colorado is naturally more alkaline so cheaper and easier to adjust ph
Maybe try raised beds or containers? Then you can add the acidic soil they like. I see a lot of UK gardeners growing blueberries in large pots so they can separate them and give them the soil they need. Blueberries are native to where I live, so they're easy to grow here. Also, you get better pollination and fruit production if you grow a few different cultivars near each other.
Michele Paccione thank you! I will have to at least give it a try.
Pine needles are a great source of acid. Mulching with shredded pine needles and bark will help.
I had get good results for my blueberries with coffee grounds and pine needles. This was useful for my azaleas too. Good luck with your garden.
mosquitoes are a main blueberry pollinator
I just about can't eat store bberries, mine are younger and much less impressive but still ONE of my small bushes produces a lot and I'm getting better at mulching and so on. You can EAT those grape leaves!
Gooseberries are also very early.
I should try growing them.
Blueberries are an acid loving plant, fungal a little, acidic and drainage
another cliff hanger lol
:-)
This year I planted 2 bushes. The flowers were everywhere. Blueberries came. I picked the first rope one and it was good. The bids ate all the rest. So sad. Have an awesome week
I'm sorry to hear that. Netting may be your only option. I don't know why my birds don't eat everything off. Just nible here and there.
Where are you located? Please answer
Maryland
@@suburbanhomestead thank you. I live your channel. Your voice is relaxing
Same as a horn worm
When they access the sides of the blueberries flower, they ruin the blueberry itself, its not a good thing
I haven’t seen ruined blueberries.
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No horrible song please.