- The cultivated blueberries resulting from selection and breeding
- Larger and smaller cultivated blueberries
- The advantages of a mixture of different varieties
- tips and tricks
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The forest blueberries that occur wild in this country are usually not planted and used commercially. In contrast, the cultivated blueberries sold by the garden trade originate botanically from North America.
The cultivated blueberries resulting from selection and breeding
The forest blueberries native to this country are also popularly referred to as blueberries because, in addition to a bluish skin, they also have a blue fruit juice, which can sometimes stain fingers and tongue blue. In contrast, the cultivated blueberries from North America and the result of breeding efforts have an almost white flesh and they do not stain. But the fruits on the bushes are not only more numerous, but also larger and juicier. In the meantime, more than 100 well-known cultivars have been created by crossing, of which around 30 have been able to establish themselves as dominant in the cultivation areas and in private gardens.
Larger and smaller cultivated blueberries
Smaller blueberry varieties such as the wild variety Sylvana or the strongly fruiting Northsky are particularly suitable for cultivation in pots and on the balcony. When grown in the garden bed, however, vigorous strains like the following will give you higher yields:
- pilot
- Bluecrop
- Duke
- patriot
Since these blueberry bushes can bring you a yield of four to eight kilos per bush after a few years at a height of up to 3 meters, you may have to think about preserving them by freezing or boiling them down.
The advantages of a mixture of different varieties
A major advantage of blueberries over other types of fruit is that their fruits ripen at different times over a period of several weeks during the harvest period. However, you can extend the season even further by mixing early, mid-early and late varieties in your garden. From the beginning of July you can already harvest blueberries of the Vaccinium Earlyblue variety and end the season in September with the berries of the late Vaccinium Jersey variety.
tips and tricks
A mixture of different blueberry varieties in the garden not only enables a longer harvest season, this procedure also enables a relaxed garden image through different flower colors and times of autumn colouring.