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Angie
Buckley WA
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Posted - May 18 2010 :  09:56:03 AM  Show Profile
A friend was cleaning out his garden and gave me *8* blueberry bushes!!!!

Now I have to figure out how to not kill them.

SOOOOO Excited.

Do what you love, love what you do.

kristin sherrill
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kristin
chickamauga ga
USA
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Posted - May 18 2010 :  12:03:41 PM  Show Profile
Oh lucky you! I just got a few this spring and the guy told me to sprinkle aluminum sulfate 6' around where they are planted when you plant them and that's all. Plus a good pine straw mulch and lots of sun. And water real good the first year. So far mine are doing good. One had berries on it! Good luck.

Kris

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Fiddlehead Farm
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Diane
Waupaca WI
USA
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Posted - May 18 2010 :  12:46:44 PM  Show Profile
Pine needle mulch and water and cage them to keep the rabbits away from the leaves.

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Susan
Lonsdale MN
USA
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Posted - May 18 2010 :  8:53:29 PM  Show Profile
Kris,
Watch out with Aluminum sulfate! It can be used on flowers, like hydrangias, but its now good to use anything with aluminum on food plants! We got some stuff called soil sulfur that we use and there's also an ammonium sulfate that is safer with acid loving food plants. Pine needles are a lot safer. but we don't have many pine around here.
We won't us aluminum pans anymore either, some research links aluminum in food with alzheimers!
Susan

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