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Joe Lample.

Hi everybody, it's Joe Lample, the Joe Behind Joe Gardner, and welcome to the Joe Gardner

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This weekend I was planting more blueberries.

I have a lot of plants already, but I don't know that you can have too many.

And so I added a few to what I have.

I love them for the fruit, of course, and so do the chickens and perds, but I also love

the ornamental aspect of these plants.

In the fall, the foliage, it's like they're on fire.

You've got all shades of reds and some purples and oranges mixed in there, and it's just

amazing.

And I like the fact that out there in the landscape beds, there's blueberries producing

on the plant that the birds can get to or the wildlife, and that's kind of fun too.

But as I was planting this weekend, I thought we really need to do a refresher on everything

you need to know about blueberries, how to select them, what kind of special soil they

need because they do need a very low pH, very much outside the norm of what we typically

have.

So you have to prepare the soil properly, and then the watering and the maintenance and

the pest control and the pruning and all of those things to have a very productive crop.

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