I picked up a couple blueberry bushes at Aldi for $7 each, and very excitedly put them in. I've known I wanted blueberries in this spot for a while, but hadn't planned to put them in for another couple years, so it seemed pretty fortuitous!
Unrelatedly, I've been meaning to move the dwarf tree from out back to out front, so it can catch more sun. (It's only 3 feet high, so I figured I can still dig it up.) Well, dwarf tree or not, it's still a tree, so I called 811 to make sure it wasn't going to go in near anything important.
Well, good news: the tree is going to be fine. Bad news: they marked a communications line right next to my new blueberry bushes (currently in blueberry twig form).
How bad is this? Can I leave it be, keep them in the general vicinity but move the right one, or move them both?
(I consider any kind of food gardening except orchards to be vegetable gardening, but if blueberries don't count by the subs rules, I humbly apologize and will cheerfully comply with removal.)
by MightBeJeb
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Firstly, if your soil isn’t acidic, they won’t do well.
We aren’t the veggie police here–in fact, most of what we talk about as being veggies on here are actually fruits anyways 🙂
Blueberry bushes are fairly shallow rooted and shouldn’t interfere with the line itself, but if they ever need to work on that line your bush may need to be dug up. I would plant them further away from the fence than this though, especially if they are highbush blueberries. At least two feet. Both to account for their mature size, as well as any shade cast by the fence.
Coffee grounds aren’t enough if your soil isn’t already acidic. Get a real soil acidifier, like the one from Espoma.