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'Easy-peasy' blueberries

With a little bit of forward planning anyone could be picking fresh, vitamin-packed, flavoursome, fruit from their garden, which most importantly, are easy to grow. Look for plants with an AGM award, -these are plants that are chosen by a panel of experts trialling for the RHS which are considered to be the best. These plants have beaten their rivals to the finishing post!



Blueberries are acid-soil plants so most of us have to grow them in large containers full of ericaceous compost. It’s worth persevering for blueberries can be picked every few days, little and often, and they are delicious eaten straight away.

‘Chandler’ has berries that are twice the size of the others, quite late in the season. ‘Bluecrop’ produces lots of smaller but equally delicious fruits in mid-season and ‘Duke’ produces early berries. With planning it’s possible to have seven weeks of berries from these, once established.

Blueberries are self fertile but they will produce a bigger crop if their flowers are cross pollinated, so grow more than one variety if you can - preferably in a frost-free position as their flowers are produced early on. It’s a superfood, full of antioxidants, but eating fresh fruit you’ve grown is also sheer pleasure!


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