How To Plant Blueberries In A Container, Planting Blueberries, Vegetable Gardening

How To Plant Blueberries In A Container, Planting Blueberries, Growing Blueberries In Pots, Vegetable Gardening

All my family love eating Blueberries and we already have 3 bushes growing in a raised bed. But who can resist bargain plants when they see them.
The Blueberry plants in this video were purchased in Morrison’s supermarket for £5 each.

Blueberries, whilst classed as self fertile really do a lot better when there are others close by.
As mentioned in the video, Blueberries, or Vaccinium corymbosum as they are correctly called require acidic soil conditions of pH 5.5 or less. They require a sunny or partial shade position in soil that stays moist but not wet.
Over time most Blueberry plants of species group Vaccinium corymbosum will form a bush/shrub or between 3 and 5 feet in height and of similar width. Size is dependant upon individual varieties.
Plants in the Vaccinium family all produce fabulous Autumn foliage colours and so I would suggest planting a Blueberry plant for the Autumn interest if nothing else.

For growing in containers you will need a container of about 40cm diameter and height. That sized container will hold sufficient volume of soil to allow the plant to grow happily, well so long as they get watered and fed.
Make sure that you have drainage holes in the base of your container or pot.
Add 3 or 4 inches (10-12cm) of drainage material to the base of the planter.
Cover the drainage material with a layer of fresh soil based Ericaceous product. I used John Innes Ericaceous.
Place the football of the plant in the soil and fill around the edges, again using the Ericaceous soil.
Make your finishing height of soil about 1inch (3cm) lower than the top of the pot. This 1 inch gap will serve as a good watering reservoir.

Tools required:
Suitably sized pot,
Drill and suitable drill bit if making drainage holes in a plastic pot,
Drainage material,
A soil based, Ericaceous, planting medium,

Start by using a drill, with suitably sized drill bit, to create drainage holes in the base of the container. I use a 10mm sized drill bit.
Fill the bottom of the container with approximately 3 inches (10cm) of drainage material. This can be small stones, broken pieces of terracotta pot or polystyrene.
Over the drainage place a layer of fresh soil. You can gauge how much soil to put into the base of the container by using the pot that contains the plant, to see where the plant will sit in the container. If the plant will sit too low then add more compost to the base. If the plant will sit too high then remove some of the fresh compost that you have already put into the container.
Take the plant out of the pot, using one hand over the top of the rootball, and use the other hand to knock the plant from the pot.
Place the rootball and attached plant into the centre of the container.
Fill around the rootball with fresh soil, and lightly firm the soil once you have filled half the height. Firming the soil ensures that air pockets are removed and that the plant is stable in the pot.
Continue to fill around the rootball until the soil is up to the same level as the top of the rootball.
Ideally a 1 inch (3cm) gap between finishing height of soil and top of pot should be left. THis gap allows for sufficient watering.

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