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Old 01-06-2010, 08:41 PM   #13 (permalink)
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Default Re: Blueberry

I'm not sure what type those varieties are. There are northern highbush (the type that produce the most commercial crops), northern lowbush (mostly wild types that we find growing in the woods), something called southern highbush (never heard of these, until the last couple of years), and rabbit-eye (which I thought, until recently, was the only kind that could grow in the south.)

However, where I live, blueberries grow quite well. Staten Island is actually closer to New Jersy, than it is to the rest of New York, and New Jersey is just about the blueberry capital of the U. S. The important thing for these (northern highbush) is they need acid soil (Miracid, or Hollytone, etc.) Many blueberry varieties are named after towns in NJ.

I don't know what varieties you can grow where you are, but I've seen the northern ones grown as far north as Quebec.
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