Blueberry Tall, Landing and Care

Blueberry is very valuable in many characteristics of the berry. In some cases, it is completely indispensable. Previously, it could be found only in a wild form, but in our time there are increasingly growing professional gardeners in the country and just wanting to enjoy the fruits of this unique shrub.

Blueberry Tall: Plate Features

1. Blueberry bushes are characterized by their size, as well as sizes of berries that are much larger than her wild relatives. The height of the bush varies from 1 to 4 m.
2. For the first time, such a variety of blueberries brought out in North America. The American name of blueberries and blueberries sounds completely equally, they are considered to be the same berry. They are really very similar in their own appearance and taste characteristics, differ only in sizes.
3. American breeders have achieved a very high yield of derived varieties. With one bush can collect up to 10 kg of fruits of tall blueberries, the weight of one berry is up to 25 grams. In our natural conditions, with favorable weather phenomena, you can collect up to 7 kg of berries from one plant.
4. Before boarding the blueberries, it is necessary to choose the right grade of bushes, which will feel good in your site. Cool conditions are better suitable for low blueberry bushes, and warmer edges with long and sultry summer will contribute to the collection of good harvest with tall shrubs.

Landing of blueberry tall: technology

1. For blueberries tall peat or sandy soil fit. It is better to plant bushes in a place protected from cold winds with a sufficient amount of solar heat away from high plants.
2. Best of all the bushes of tall blueberries feel like a mixture of peat, and natural components: needles, cones, bark, branches, or with a combination of peat and sand in a ratio of 1:10.
3. If your soil does not have suitable characteristics suitable for blueberries, it can be artificially enriched. A nyline peat can be mixed with all natural components in such a way that the peat is at least 40%. For the oaking of the soil, it is recommended to add about 60 g of sulfur on 1 bush. Adding to the soil of manure, chicken litter, ash or humus is not allowed.
4. In the soil they make pits under each bush, or a trench, which are abundantly watered with water. The maximum size of the pit is 1x1 m, the depth is about 40 cm. The distance between the pits for planting blueberries should be about 120 cm. The distance between the rows should be from 3 to 3.5 m.
5. The bottom of the pit is covered with the film, the edges of the film must be raised to a height of up to 20 cm above the bottom. In the film, a few slots are done with a knife. Then the pit is filled with a mixture of soil in which the blueberry bush fit.
6. The film at the bottom of the pit will delay the water after irrigation, and the holes will help to remove excess moisture.
7. If you are going to plant a blueberry in sandy soil, you will need to organize its regular moisturizing. For planting bushes, it is enough to simply move several times the soil with the addition of natural components and produce soil oxidation.
8. Blueberry seedlings tall is better to buy in special containers. Before boarding, it is necessary to immerse the container with a seedling in the water for 30 minutes, then carefully get a bush from the tank and stretch the earthen ships, then carefully straighten the roots of the bush.
9. I lower the plant into a hole, straightening the root system of the blueberry bush tall on the sides, and sprinkle the soil so that the neck of the root is under the layer of the earth with a thickness of 3 cm. After landing, the bushes once again pour water and mulch the soil with sawdust of coniferous trees, straw or peat. Mulching of the soil allows you to avoid the growth of weeds, drying and compacting the soil, plants supercooling.
10. Landing the tall blueberry bushes is made early in the spring or autumn. After landing, it is recommended to get rid of the weak twigs of the bush, and strong cut around half. But this does not concern 2-year-old bushes of plants that do not require trimming after landing.

Tall blueberry planting

Several times for the season you need to break the land on the plot with blueberries, but it should be careful to avoid soil cutting and damage to the plant root system, which is not deep from the surface.

Soil mulching will provide very good support to the plant. The mulch layer is necessary once in 2 or 3 years thicker, which will help in the fight against weeds. If weeds still appeared next door to blueberries, they need to be quickly destroyed.

Watering blueberries tall

1. Blueberry requires the right watering. On the one hand, the moisture should be enough, and on the other hand, excess water can harm the plant, so you need to ensure that the water is not formed more than 2 days.
2. Watering the planting of blueberries tall should be spent 2 times in 7 days, 1 bucket for each bush in the morning, and as much water after sunset. That is, in 1 week each plant requires 4 buckets of water.
3. It is especially important to water blueberries in July and August, when flower buds appear on the bushes. If during this period the plant will feel the lack of water, then the future crop will be more scarce. In addition, the crop of next year can also experience negative consequences.
4. When especially hot, the bushes need not only to water, but also spray with water to avoid overheating. Water procedures are necessary, like watering, early in the morning and in the evening.

Tall Blueberry Soil Fertilizer

1. Blueberry tall for benefits are minerals that are added to the soil in the spring. Organic fertilizers are prohibited for blueberry plantings.
2. Ammonium sulfate fertilize the soil 3 times for the spring: during the movement of juice - 40% of the required quantity, in early May - 35%, after another month - the remaining part of the fertilizer. In general, about 90 g of minerals on 1 plant comes.
3. Superphosphate is added in summer and in the fall of 100 g for 1 bush, magnesium sulfate - 1 time per year 100 g per bus, potassium sulfate and zinc sulfate - one-time 2 g per plant.

Gun reproduction tall

1. You can increase the population of blueberry plantings both with seeds and vegetatively. Seeds are sowing in the fall in the soil with an acidic peat content. The air temperature, comfortable for seeds - about 25 ºC, they must often watered, pour and loose soil. In the spring, nitrogen fertilizers contribute to the soil. After 2 years, seedlings can be transferred to the place you have chosen.
2. It is more convenient and faster to multiply blueberry with cuttings. The shoots are better separated from the bush in the second half of autumn or at the beginning of spring. It is better to choose a cutlery up to 15 cm long and with sufficient thickness so that they quickly let roots. In order for shoots to have more chances to take care, they are kept in the cold at a temperature of from 1 to 5 ºC, after which they are sled to the ground with a peat and sand under the tilt. Saplings will be sufficiently developed and ready to disembodit a day 2 years.
3. You can breed a blueberry way to divide the bush. The separated plant should be a root of about 6 cm. The bush is immediately sent to the place suitable for it.
4. The bushes that were raised from seeds become fruitful in 7-8 years, and with a vegetative method of breeding it is possible to obtain berries after 4 years.

Trimming the blueberry tall

1. To get a good harvest of berries not 1 time, the bushes need to cut regularly. It is better to do before the advent of the kidneys, that is, in the first half of spring. But if you notice unhealthy shoots at another time of the year, it is better not to wait for spring, but to get rid of them quickly.
2. In the first year, it is necessary to crop all the flowers in the first year, it will help the further prosperous development of the bush. Up to 4 years, the bush needs to thoroughly cut unhealthy and weak shoots, as well as branches lying on the ground, and frostbed after winter cold, which contributes to the thickening of the main branches. This in the future will give the opportunity to do not break under the weight of a rich harvest.
3. Plants over 4 years old are removed not only weak, but also old branches. Stripping types of blueberries are thinning in the center of the plant, and the bustling bushes are deprived of the lower escapes.
4. It is important to trace the branches from neighboring plants to cross each other, otherwise it can affect the taste qualities of the crop, the maturation of which can be delayed.

Fighting pests and blueberry diseases tall

1. Significantly damage damage is small birds. To avoid this, it is necessary to protect the bushes with a special shallow mesh.
2. Insects can embodious leaves and shrubs flowers. Such pests include the May Beetle, Tl. Also, the root tall blueberry system can suffer from insect larvae.
3. Insects can be removed from the bush with their hands and get rid of them, reckoning in tanks with salted water. Smaller pests will disappear after processing by special means: accotlla or carbofos. For prevention, it is best to treat plants after the end of winter and after breaking the berries, or immediately after the appearance of malicious insects.
4. Blueberry may suffer from spreading fungus, the cause of the appearance of which is an excess fluid in the soil. If such a disease has appeared, then it is necessary to draw conclusions, and if necessary, fix irrigation errors.
5. To prevent the occurrence of fungal disease, we recommend 2 times a year to handle a burgue shrub mixture. In the event of a fungus, it is necessary to treat plants with therapeutic preparation "Topaz" 2 or 3 times in a week. As an analogue of this medication recommended Fundazole or topxin.
6. The situation is worse when viral or mycoplasma disease occurs. They are not treated, the sick plants will have to be destroyed by burning.
7. Sometimes the gardeners are concerned about the appearance of yellow leaves on blueberry bushes. This can be corrected by making special fertilizers to the soil: peat or nitrogen minerals.
8. If the leaves on the bush blush, then this is a more serious sign of drying the shoots or even a stem cancer.

Types of blueberry tall

There are many different blueberry varieties tall. They can be attributed to various groups, among which the northern and southern varieties. Northern species are more adapted to cold winter periods. They are characterized by a later crop. Southern varieties are more stronger to dry summer.

For moderate latitudes and cool weather conditions, the northern grades of tall blueberries are best suited.

1. Patriot is a high scratching bushes of blueberries, 1.5 m in height. Berries have light blue and become ripe in July or in August. The grade tolerates cold and rarely sick. The yield of 1 bush is about 7 kg of berries.
2. Duke - a plant up to 2 m in height, which blooms late, and gives a crop relatively early. Berries of medium and large size, do not become smaller over the years. Not afraid of even the strongest frosts, but needs enhanced trimming.
3. Blussier is one of the common blueberry varieties tall. The height of the plant is up to 2 m, the branches are raised, the berries are quite large, rounded shapes having a sweet taste. The crop matures in August, the yield of 1 bush - up to 9 kg.
4. Willingly is a particularly frost-resistant sort of blueberry tall. This species is removed in Siberia, which speaks for itself. Oval large berries have an acidic and sweet taste and dark blue color with a characteristic flaw. The yield is small - 1.5 kg from the bush, since the height of the plant does not exceed 1 m.
5. Tall garden dummy led in America gardener by the surname of the Saille. This is a high bush of up to 2.5 m growth, which requires around 3 m free area around him. Gives a wonderful harvest in the presence of a large number of insects, pollinating the plant, so the place is nearby apart. This variety is convenient because ripe berries remain on the bushes up to 3 weeks after ripening.

Use of blueberry use

1. Blueberry is a very useful berry for the human body. It minimizes harm from radiation, activates the work of the intestine and the pancreas. It is useful for the nervous system and brain, improves memory and mental functions. It is capable of strengthening blood vessels, helps to normalize the work of the heart.
2. There is not a single organ in the human body that would not feel the benefit of the regular use of this unique berry. Blueberry is effectively used in the treatment of rheumatism, atherosclerosis, inflammatory diseases and many other ailments.
3. Juice berry is used in diabetes mellitus, as it lowers blood sugar levels. It is useful for its use to normalize the function of view. A large amount of antioxidants prevents the formation and growth of cancer cells.

Tall blueberry bushes are able to occupy an important place at our country sites. The indisputable benefits and taste of the fruits of this amazing plant will be the best reward for gardeners, which invest a lot of strength and time in breeding and care for this shrub.