Purchasing Blueberry Plants

Series Summary

Blueberries are delicious flowering plants that are from the genus Vaccinium. These plants are only found in North America, but their taste is appreciated throughout the world. Blueberries go through several color changes before they ripen into the beautiful blue we're all used to. They typically bloom from May through October, but their demand as a delicious cereal additive will not succumb to the standards of time. Blueberries also have a diverse range of nutrients ranging from vitamin C to vitamin E. Furthermore, blueberries are excellent sources for antioxidants. Blueberries truly are a magical fruit.

In this free video series a professional organic gardener Jeff Belli will teach you how to grow blueberries. Jeff will begin by teaching you how to select your plant and gather the necessary tools for gardening. You'll then learn a few helpful techniques for planting and maintaining your blueberry bush. Later, Jeff will teach you a few maintenance methods, which will come in handy for ensuring proper germination. In the end you'll learn a few methods for cleaning and storing your blueberries to ensure that you have fresh blueberries to enjoy at every meal.

Video Transcript

"Alright today were going to planting blueberry plants and we want to talk a little bit about where to get your blueberry bushes from. Now you can go to your local lumber supply store and get blueberry plants and I have found that they are tiny there little and they probably wont survive cause their not old enough yet. What we to look for we want to buy plants that are at least three years old and here we have a plant. This plant was shipped to me and this plant is not three years old. This plant is more or less four or five year?s olds. But because I ordered early I got last year plants. Which is great because then I don't have to fool with a three year old plant that I got last year even though I ordered them early. Half of my plants last year were the year before plants that didn't completely sell and half of them were these little teeny tiny ones. Now this three year old plant is perfectly fine its just that its going to take longer for it to produce. These plants here will run you, I but them three at a time and want I like to do is I get an early booming blueberry bush a middle of the season blooming bush and then I get a late bloomer. That way I have blueberries from late June all the way up until September which is great because we love those blueberries."