since our soil tends to be alkaline, and blueberry bushes are on the fussy side. They only thrive in high acid soil. They grow wonderfully, I hear, in Michigan, and they grow wild in Maine . . . and I’m sure there are
The flowers are bell-shaped on the huckleberry plant, and the leaves turn a dark gold to red-purple in the fall. The seeds of the huckleberry fruit are harder than blueberries, and there are 10 seeds per berry. Huckleberry plants are found more commonly in the Pacific Northwest and the No...
After you learnwhen to plant blueberriesand care for them properly, blueberry shrubs grow 1 to 12 feet tall when mature with a 2 to 10-foot spread, depending on whether it is a lowbush or highbush blueberry. Bilberry bushes grow in low mats with branches that are only 6 to 24-inches...
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“A slip is a single plant (with small roots) that is sprouted on the sweet potato root and then slipped off so that you may plant it in the garden to grow a sweet potato plant.” Each slip doesn’t look like much when it arrives—a piece of vine with some roots and maybe a lea...
My dogwoods, fringe tree, hostas, holly (blue / Mesevereae — the male only), and virtually every other plant labeled deer resistant have been eaten by my resident herd of hooved rats. But there’s good news. Deer are creatures of habit. Takes a bit of work to modify the route(s)...
monoculture. We live across the street from a standard grid-like apple orchard, but mature forest borders one of our yard, and young forest borders another side. But we also clustered our apple trees with hazelnut, blueberry, and chokeberry bushes, and the cluster sits by our vegetable ...