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‘HOW to successfully grow 
BLUEBERRIES 
PLANTING HINTS TO HELP YOU. 
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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 addi- 
tional 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. 
Cultivated blueberries are self-sterile. To 
provide for crop pollination, plant at 
least two varieties. 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 aluminum 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 per- 
mitted 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 sur- 
face-drainage are important. Planting 
on wide ridges, seven inches high is de- 
sirable. 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 simi- 
lar humus. The productiveness of blue- 
berries is largely dependent upon ample 
moisture in the upper soil. 
MULCHING. On other than natural 
blueberry 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 in- 
dividual plants over an area of six feet 
square. 
PRUNING. Until the end of the third 
season, little if any pruning is necessary. 
FERTILIZER. No fertilizer should be 
applied the first year the plant is set. 
The second year, however, the applica- 
tion of a commerciai 5-10-5 fertilizer 
may increase both yield and size of fruit. 
Evenly spread % to % 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 ammonia 
mixed with sawdust may be spread 
around each bush the second and third 
year. 
PLANTING. Commercial plants should 
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. 
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