Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: MoreWhisky on May 07, 2009, 21:20
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On my travels today drove past one of those small local independant garden centres so went in for a look.
What caught my eye was a lovely looking Blueberry bush about half metres high with some flowers on to :) priced at £16 :(
So what i would like advice with if possible is,
Is this a good price?
Will i get fruit this yr?
And i understand they like acidic soil mine is alkaline so how could i quickly make it acidic?
Any think else i should know?
Im seriously thinking of going to buy this bush tomorrow :unsure: :ohmy: 8) :)
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I don't think it's a good price at all. Keeping it in a large pot of eracious compost is the easy way to go, more so, if you have some smaller/dwarf variety. But here you go:
http://www.blackmoor.co.uk/index.php?cPath=303 (http://www.blackmoor.co.uk/index.php?cPath=303)
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A bit expensive :ohmy: Have you tried Homebase or Wilkinsons? I bought 1 from each, only small, but only a few quid, I put them in a pot each, both now covered in flowers, hopefully berries to follow :D
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Thanks for all your advice and links, Ive got a 80 mile drive on sat so plan on going country route and stopping in every garden centre i pass.
Should make it a more intresting drive :)
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I think they average about £9 to £12.
thats a nice link Gobs, having a read of the site.
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Well i did my drive and stopped in at 5 garden centres i passed.
Blueberry bushes ranged from £14.99 to the cheapest at £5.99.
As i expected the best looking bush was from a local small independant nursery that also happened to be £5.99! So i bought 2 :)
I am finding the smaller local ones always hold the best quality stuff if they have got what your looking for.
Result MW.
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Feel free to add details of the independent nursery to the sticky thread, MW