20-30cm 'Patriot' Blueberry Bush | 2L Pot
Early season blueberry with huge fruits
The biggest early season blueberry you'll find! This upright, deciduous bush is not only beautiful, but bears large, blue-purple fruit, ready for harvest in early summer. The patriot blueberry carries an oustanding deep flavour and is great in jams, preserved or baked in pies.
This particular Blueberry plant has the added bonus of a fantastic autumn display and snowy blossoms in early spring making it not just a source of delicious fruit, but an idea landscape feature too.
Blueberries are best eaten fresh, as they are packed full of antioxidants. The nutrients which make blueberries able to be classified as a superfood have traits which are said to cause weight loss, fat burning, anti-aging, and memory and motor skill improvements. With all these reasons to eat blueberries, it's a good thing they're also naturally delicious!
Variety Information
- Type: Northern Highbush
- Harvesting Period: May-August
- Estimated Time to Best Yields: 2 Years
- Uses: Eating Fresh, Jam-Making, Cooking
- Supplied As: 2L Pot
- Height on Arrival: 45cm (18 Inches)
- Planting Distance: 1-1.8m
- Eventual Height & Spread: 1.5m x 1.5m (5 x 5ft)
- Dig a hole that is twice the radius of the rootball.
- Before planting, drench your plant’s rootball.
- Place the pot in the planting hole, making sure that it sits no lower than an inch below the ground.
- Fill the planting hole with a mix of compost and garden soil, and add fertiliser and mycorrhizal fungi. Take care to not compress the soil.
- Once you are happy with your efforts, provide your plant with a good watering.
- Add mulch on top (whether bark and wood chippings, compost, manure, leaf-mould, and stones). Try to keep the mulch from touching the stem.
- Apply fertiliser, and replace decomposed mulch come spring.
- Hardiness: Blueberry plants derive from North America, which can have much colder winters than the UK. Therefore, mild winters are less likely to damage your blueberry plant.
- Position: In the UK, the greatest barrier to successful fruiting is a lack of sunlight, so planting in full sun is recommended. However, blueberries still tolerate light shade.
- Soil: Blueberry plants are suited to acidic soils below 5.5 pH, and anything above this will reduce the amount of nutrients they absorb. You can increase the acidity of your soil by watering with rainwater, and using pine needles and ericaceous compost as mulch. With chalky soils, you are better off planting in pots and filling them with ericaceous compost. It also is important that you avoid waterlogged soils, which will starve your blueberry plant of oxygen.
| Colour Test | Sand |
|---|---|
| Harvesting Period | Early Season Fruit Trees, Mid Season Fruit Trees |
| Blueberry Type | Northern Highbush |
| Common Name | Blueberry |
| Harvest Month | May, June, July, August |
| Is Collection/Mix? | No |
| Needs Ericaceous Compost? | Yes |
| Species | Blueberry Plants, Soft Fruit Plants |
| Time To Cropping | 1 Year |
| Type | Blueberry |
| Uses | Fruiting Plants Suitable For Eating Fresh |
| Colour | Sand |
| Eventual Height | 1m-2m |
| Eventual Spread | 1m-2m |
| Annual Rate Of Growth | Fast Growing |
| Supplied As | 2L Pot |
| Supplied As | 2L-3L Pot |
| Type | Soft Fruit Plants |
| Shop By Category | Soft Fruit Plants |