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[NAFEX] growing blueberries in alkaline conditions

From: Alan Haigh <alandhaigh@gmail.com>
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Subject: [NAFEX] growing blueberries in alkaline conditions
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:31:07 -0400

Maybe there are places that are too alkaline to grow blueberries, but I wouldn't give up without trying mixing my soil with peat moss 1 to 1 and adding peletized sulfur. If plants still looked chlorotic I'd spray with a foliar iron amendment. If that didn't work I'd just plant them in straight bails of peat as I've seen demonstrated on the net in Texas, I think it was.

As I've stated on this site before, I have seen very healthy and productive blueberries growing in soils with a pH in the mid 6's and others corroborated this observation. True gardeners never give up.

[NAFEX] growing blueberries in alkaline conditions, Alan Haigh, 04/30/2009