35 Blueberry Bushes In the Ground

Got all the blueberry bushes planted the drip irrigation hooked up in time for nightfall. Longest work day to date. Just as we were wrapping up the final details, it starts to rain. Nature's occasionally quite compassionate.

Blueberry Variety Comparison

Bought these 35 beauties on clearance at Lowes for $3.50 each. They were super healthy looking. 16 Homebelle, 14 Premier, and 5 Powderblue blueberries. Despite the wonders of Subaru Forester cargo space, it's looking more and more like we need a truck, eh?

Day after purchase, we drove up to the property and started digging holes (well mostly the hubby dug holes, and I marked where and gathered mulch and organic material). Got as far as about 30 holes before bodies started giving out and severe weather arrived.

It certainly appears as if we're steering towards blueberries at this point. While we have a variety (sampling really) of many fruit trees and bushes, over half of all our plants are blueberries now, which is good since it seems to like our super acidic soil (4.7) better than anything else.

Wrote up a tally of the total varieties we now possess of blueberry (all Rabbitteye).

Variety	# We Have	Color	Berry Per Lb	Firm	Flavor	Vigor	Avg Lbs Per Acre	Harvest	Descript
Premier	17	9	382	8	10	9	7811	Late May, Early June	One of the best for fresh eating.
Home Belle	16	10?	433	5?	8?	9?	3979	June	1955 Variety with soft fruit and seeds and fair quality.
Powder Blue	6	10	336	9	9	9	7491
Tift Blue	4	9	361	9	9	19	8247	Late June, Early July	One of most popular
Climax	2	8	352	10	8	8	2857	May	Short concentrated harvest.