

HOW to successfully grow 
BLUEBERRIES 
PLANTING HINTS TO HELP YOU. Your 
success and satisfaction is most important to 
our own success. You want your berries to 
grow well, to produce abundantly—so do we. 
These suggestions should help; but write us 
for any additional information you think 
you'd like from us. We'll be glad to help 
you any way we can. 
Keep in mind the following points. Culti- 
vated blueberries are self-sterile. To provide 
for crop pollination, plant at least two va- 
rieties. Blueberries need acid soil; do not 
plant on limed soil. Mix into slightly acid 
soil either acid peat, rotting straw, decaying 
leaves or sawdust. Five pounds of alumi- 
num sulphate to each 100 sq. ft. and up to 
10 lbs. on heavy loams is good for garden 
planting. Lime or stable manure should 
never be permitted into close contact of 
planting area. 
SOIL. The best blueberry growth occurs in 
natural blueberry soil with a Ph of from 3.8 
to 5.5. Ample humus, a fairly constant high 
water table and good surface-drainage are 
important. Planting on wide ridges, seven 
inches high is desirable. If blueberry plants 
are set in your garden or lawn, dig a large 
hole for each plant and fill with leafmold, 
peat, rotting hardwood sawdust or similar 
humus. The productiveness of blueberries 


FIRST— buy your plants prom 
is largely dependent upon ample moisture in 
the upper soil. 
MULCHING. On other than natural blue- 
berry soil, apply straw, salthay, pine needles 
or similar mulch as soon as plants are set. 
This mulch should be six inches deep and 
spread around the individual plants over an 
area of six feet square. 
PRUNING. Until the end of the third sea- 
son, little if any pruning is necessary. 
FERTILIZER. No fertilizer should be applied 
the first year the plant is set. The second 
year, however, the application of a commer- 
cial 5-10-5 fertilizer may increase both yield 
and size of fruit. Evenly spread 4 to °%4 lb. 
per bush in a wide band around, but about 
ten inches from the plant. If soil is sweet 
and not sour two ounces of sulphate am- 
monia mixed with sawdust may be spread 
around each bush the second and third year. 
PLANTING. Commercial plants sheuld be 
set every four feet in rows at least eight feet 
apart. Roots should be well spread out. Set 
plants slightly deeper than in the nursery. 
Before setting, prune out the small bushy 
growth. Plants for home planting may be 
set the most convenient way, about 4 feet 
apart each way. 
