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Happy to be back as always! Blueberry season is almost upon us 💙

I'm 14 years old boy, I love gardening since I was a kid, I've grown so many plants, and I like to watch your video for guide, thanks

Great content guys! I'm glad you had Meg back. Her delivery, pacing, and sense of humor really sparkles.

I have my blueberries in a whiskey barrel planter, until 3yrs ago I was having one struggle and yellow for years, in various soil mixes and acidifiers but soil tests kept saying it was alkaline (short of dumping vinegar on it nothing helped); then I looked up solutions and long story short, i found one guy who said he grows his in straight up peat moss to work around the acidic soil problem. Now, both the previously struggling one and the 3yr old bush have grown massively and i get like a quart full of berries each year. Easily was the best advice I found.

I decided I’m growing blueberries & strawberries this year. The prices at supermarket are getting insane. Small container is like $6.99-$12.99

Thank you so much for taking the time to make a video for those of us who never thought we could grow anything … ever. You are the best!

Im testing my soil tomorrow . I don't want a blueberry funeral . Thanks !!! Great video !!!

Thank you, thank you!! No rambling with stuff and nonsense. Meg told us exactly what we needed to know AND her demeanor is very pleasant, and her voice is soothing and enjoyable to listen to. Glad that your video came up.

From first hand experience, it is not necessary to limit your plant selection to "container" varieties. I learned a lot from a professor who taught agriculture at a Texas University specializing in fruits and nuts. And he had a large personal green house. He grew a huge assortment of fruits in containers. Most of those containers were well under 20 gallons. We are talking trees. NOT dwarf varieties. He selected the very best varieties for his purposes. The container naturally limits the size of the plant, but not the size of the fruit itself. The yield matches the plant size. This was perfect for my purposes. I grew my own "urban orchard" with most of my fruits in containers. I used 14 gallon rubbermaid totes with drain holes drilled in the bottom. For example, I grew 2 full sized varieties of sweet cherries. The containers limited the plant size to short enough that I could tend to them without a ladder. For an experiment, I even grew a full sized variety of mulberry tree in a container and that's amazing given that it has a central tap root. Remember, the variety was full sized, but the container limited the plant growth. For me, blueberries were the easiest fruit to grow of all that I tried. As I recall, I grew around 5 varieties so that I could have ripe blueberries from early until frost. Each one was a full sized variety selected for the very best characteristics for my purpose. At 14 gallon pots,, I doubt that there was much of a dwarfing effect. Do not limit your choices to "container" varieties. Pick the very best varieties for your purpose. The container will limit root growth. The plant will limit it's canopy size to it's root capacity. Naturally dwarfing the plant if necessary. Growing fruits in containers causes the plant to fruit early in its lifespan compared to growing in ground. But I never got blueberries until at least year 2. So if your viewers don't get blueberries that first year, don't abandon your plants. General notes from my experience growing fruits in containers. 1. My plants needed a ton of water. I had to water heavily every day in the summer. (Probably smaller "container" sized plants would need less water. But the selection is limited and the yield is directly related to plant size.) 2. Bird nets were absolutely necessary. But bird net snags on everything it touches and rips up everything it snags. Leaves, fruit, and finger nails. Do not drape your nets directly on the plants because the birds can still sit on the plant and reach much of your fruit from there. But more importantly, you'll rip up your plant and fruit each time you remove the net for harvest. Save yourself a bunch of hassle, save your plant, and save your fruit, build a simple frame over your plant. Wood works. I used pvc pipe. Most of my plants were under a pvc pipe archway. The same frame supported frost cover in spring and fall. 3. Don't rush to harvest. Especially blueberries. Many fruits, including blueberries turn color long before they are ripe. If the berry doesn't release easily from the plant, it's not ripe. And many varieties ripen over a long time window. That is, some of the berries are ripe long before others on the same plant. (This is a poor characteristic for commercial growers who want to harvest the entire field at once, but is often a great characteristic for home growers that wants to eat fresh every day.) For best flavor, pick only the ripe ones. Let the rest hang on the plant For blueberries, there's a long time window to harvest any given ripe berry. As it hangs longer, it gets sweeter, but gets softer. Of course, at some point it becomes mush. Note that berries do NOT ripen once they are removed from the plant.

Good video for beginners. Soil acidity is the most important thing to know about taking care of blueberries. Selecting the right container size before you buy the plant is good advice in general, not just with blueberries.

I love the idea of feeding the birds well. What a happy compromise!

Just got 2 pink lemonade blueberry plants that are self pollinating! They were already blooming, i hope they last with these tips!

I first got the idea that blueberries would be a good idea to plant when I saw numerous wild blueberries growing everywhere around here. Apparently, they just love the native soil that also has a ton of red oaks growing nearby. Two years after planting to large bushes that were suited towards our zone 6A (Now 6B) climate, the became flush with blueberries! The first year I learned just how much birds and deer love them too, because despite the flush, I must have only had a few off of the bush! Every June I apply some netting and it seems to solve the pest problem!

I just bought 4 three year old blueberry shrubs two weeks ago!! Perfect timing. Love this channel more by the day!

Perfect timing. I have become obsessed with blueberries. My two cattle troughs, along with the raised beds, will be dedicated to blueberries this year. My current in-ground plants were started using sphagnum peat as a base. It sounds like better control of soil condition can be achieved in a raised bed type environment. Thank you for the great information. The fuse is lit.

Thank you Kevin for having Meg teach us the blueberry magic. As a good host, never forget to thank your contributors/partners at the end of the video for their contribution to your channel. This came at a perfect time as I want to grow blueberries this year.🌿

My mom bought two blueberry plants 2 years ago cause she loves them, I do not. Well my mom promptly forget about them and it fell to my responsibility to care for them. I managed to get them in large containers and they have survived, but barely produced. Probably because after watering them and giving them soil acidifier and berry tone stuff, I promptly ignore them to take care of the plants that are for me. 😆 With this video, I have a better understanding on how to care for them, and I will try to be better at taking care of them.

I always tell people with bird problems to feed them and keep them watered and they will leave your garden alone!! A lot of the time they steal our berries because they are thirsty as well!! Great tip! I’m sure it will help many!! Also, thanks for the tip about leaves falling off of them. I’m in Alabama and mine have fallen off. I get worried every year because usually one will come back and the other stays dead 😭

That was a great video and I love every thing I see with Meg because she is in my zone and she makes everything so easy to understand! I might just try my hand at container blueberries this year! Love those containers too!!

I love Meg! I am currently only able to container garden and Meg has helped me so much over the years. I don’t know why I haven’t grown any blueberries yet but this has me planning on starting some in the spring! Thanks! :)

Kevin's container berry video was the first one I ever saw on the Epic Gardening channel a few years ago and I've been subscribed ever since. It is a bucket list garden dream to grow container berries and citrus plants for me! Meg has tickled my dream with her informative delivery and confidence ❤ 🌱

Perfect timing! My mom's blueberry plant is growing in a container and losing its leaves, so I started panicking! Going to get a soil test kit now! 🏃‍♀

I actually made mixture to help raise soil more acidic- I mix 1/2 cup vinegar and mix in peat moss in soil and planted in clay pot...My blueberries went BOOM! wish could attach pic to show, but it works, I also a empty liter soda bottle, drill small hole in cap-fill with solution and then place soda bottle with cap side into soil, this will slowly water plant as soil draws solution from bottle, When bottle empty after about 2wks refill and start again

I had a pollinator/fruit/edible garden installed in a small part of my front yard by a local company this fall and they added 3 native blueberries. Very excited!! These will be my first blueberries but I expect not my last.

I bought a bare-rooted Blueberry in San Marcos CA. Planted it in a large pot, good soil, and mulch, and 8 days later fed it. Before long Marcos CA. Before long new branches; and lovely leaves began the show. By December even those terrible winds did not hurt it, but broke two 6" avocado trees! Now it is full of blossoms and I love this new addition to my garden. It is going to have a large amount of fruit to enjoy.

So glad to see a blueberry video I was wondering where they had gone. I bought a bunch of blueberry plants based on your other videos and wanted to say thank you for sharing your experience with us!

I have watched and loved so many of your wonderful videos, thanks! Meg is a great teacher and explained some things this old gardener has never heard explained before. I hope we can see more of her, and always more of you. Very much appreciated!

So excited for this video! I was just telling my gardener coworker yesterday how I wanted to try container blueberries!

Thank you!! This is so timely for me. I was wondering just this morning if my blueberry plants were really okay (they look okay, for now) and what I could do to ensure they stay healthy. Thanks for reminding me to test the soil.

Pro-tip, if you have pine trees around you, gather some pine starw and use that as your mulch. As it breaks down, it will continue to keep your soil acidic. Its also free :).

Here in the SF bay area I found 55 gallon drum on craigslist for $10 each rinse them out cut them in half to make roughly 25 gallon pot and potted up 27 blueberries at five dollars a 25 gallon pot is great. It’s been six years and they are holding up strong

Perfect timing. I've been thinking about the three bb bushes I planted in big pots two years ago. They have been a bit neglected, this inspires me to move them to a less forgetable area, fertilize and repot bigger! Thanks. Growing in the wet Scottish Borders.

Just a little FYI to Florida blueberry growers. The blueberries start putting out buds in Florida in November. December is when the blooming starts and even a few baby blueberries start growing. Harvest time is late March/early April through about mid-May. Our berry season (along with a lot of other plant seasons) is very different from the average growing model.

I can't believe any of my bushes have lasted as long as they have. I've started making some containers to replant my poor blueberries. Thanks for all the tips. Meg is a great host by the way.

Even though we lost a few blueberry bushels here, it seems like a great starter plant for new gardeners. Great info! I haven't started gardening, but this definitely gives me the encouragement to try them in the fall.

Great job educating us in tasty blueberries! So encouraging

Giving this a try in Zone 5 just above Michigan in Ontario. My kids LOVE blueberries. We planted raspberries last year and it was a total hit.

What about growing huckleberries ? I lived in Montana for 4-5 years and I really miss them. I think huckleberries are much more flavorful and bigger in size too. I would see huckleberry stands on the side of the road and stores filled with candles, homemade soaps and anything else you could imagine. It was wonderful especially huckleberry icecream, YUMMMM !!!

Back in 2014ish, i got a free baby blueberry plant from a garden expo. I wanted to pot my blueberry plant in a pot, but my parents did not want a pot on our porch and they want it away from the entrance because they fear it will bring bugs. They showed me a small dirt spot on our yard and i was worried it would not grow bc the soil was tough/brittle when dry and muddy/clay-like when wet. I dug out most of the brittle dirt and used soil. I didnt know what kind of soil to use, i just used regular potting soil. For the 1st yr, it had leaves and had fruit. It was very yummy. But the next 2-3 years, it was just a stick and no leaves or berries. I thought i killed it. Then the next year i saw leaves coming but no berries. We didnt want to get rid of it because the 1st year we had it, it had very sweet berries that we enjoyed. We hoped to get those berries again. Couple years later and i got berries! Tiny berries, but still sweet! Now in 2024, it is blooming so many white flowers! Doubled from last year! Im excited to see how they do. I am worried if I'm pruning them the right way since it is uneven all around.

i was just considering planting a blueberry bush in a container a couple days ago. impeccable timing, as always

I had sort of given up on blueberries, the first one I grew was in a container on my porch years ago in college. It died before fruiting. The next few times we're in the ground once I bought a house... I dont know whats wrong with my soil but they always struggle and then die. This inspired me to try again in containers!

This has gotten me very excited to try planting some Blueberries this spring. I know I likely won't have a harvest this year, but good things come to those who wait, and those who work for the results! Thanks for another awesome video!

My story is just like yours! Four dead bushes. So they were felled and I added soil acidifier. I have a 6' x 3' raised bed that I will plant two bushes in. Until they fill the bed I will plant some other things with them. Great video and very informative. I will say that irrigation is very important and, in my 6B-7 zone I might actually need shade cloth during the harshest of the summer sun.

What a wonderful video. A complete guide for growing blueberries answering all of the question a beginner would have. Thanks to Meg for all the information shared.

I've seen quite a few not so helpful videos. This was very helpful. Thanks.

This will be the first time trying to keep my first blueberry container alive over winter. 🤞🫐

Love this video, she made it so clear on how to grow blueberries, but I was wondering what was the variety that can grow by itself without having to buy other varieties for pollination, thank you

I just recently subscribed, because the videos are very informative, well organized and nicely presented. This one was excellent. I’ve been looking into growing blueberries and am partial to containers, and she gave me plenty to get started on (and some info I didn’t get in similar videos). You really have a great channel! I also sub’d to Meg’s, too!

Thank you for all of your blueberry tips, your successes as well as your failures. 😊

I've never seen a video with Meg before. Great job! Straight to the point with a joke here and there. Perfect! Keep up the great work folks!

I just bought a couple of Blueberry plants and getting ready to plant them in containers. I was already to plant them, once I get some acidic soil or amendments, in a couple containers I had used before. Then you brought up making sure to have a large container to put them in. Mine were probably about 5 gallon. That's probably why my blueberries before didn't make it before. So, will be picking up a couple more pots as well. Very informative video! Thank you!!

Great video, but wanted to offer a friendly correction that could really bum someone out if left unnoticed: she said to not worry about checking chill hours if you go to your local garden center, because they would only have stuff suited for your area. Hah, I wish 🥲 Home Depot and Lowe’s are notorious for shipping the same stuff everywhere. Here in SoCal they routinely sell lilacs, even near the ocean. Same with stone fruits that require like 800+ chill hours. Please check for what varieties work in your area before heading to the store!!!

Really wonderful information, thanks for sharing!

Wow! What a great video! Meg is so pleasant to listen to.. great voice!

My Book arrived today!!! I am VERY impressed and already love it! Thank you for publishing your wisdom.

Meg, this is exactly what I was hoping for! I learn best visually, so actually seeing you plant, fertilize, acidify, pick the right container, talk about what you’ve learned, etc. is SO helpful! I’d sworn off blueberries, until I saw a VERY few of them at my Costco today, for a killer price. I just had to grab a couple up. Wish me luck!!! 🫐🫐🫐

Such helpful tips! Thank you for sharing this Meg. Learned so much! Can't wait to start planting my berries. 👍❤️

Thank you for posting this video, I've been tote containers for 4 yrs now on my balcony. Meg gave GREAT tips however she did not explain how to over winter the blueberries. I live in Ontario and our winters get quite cold. Thanks again

This was an amazing video..thanks for sharing your knowledge. 🙏🏼

I've been loving every addition to the Epic team! I'd love for Chris to do more again, I love her style!

Thank you Meg! I’ve wanted to try growing blueberries for a while and hoped this would be the year, so your video is perfect timing and maybe the inspiration I need!! I’m also in NC so yeah, that clay soil is terrible and I only use containers, so again perfect video for me!🎉 Great tips! ❤ Also love how you mentioned feed the birds. I do as well to deter them from my garden. Also adding a bird bath especially helps in the summer to keep them from poking my tomatoes.😅

Great video. And yes, me too. I grow everything in fabric. I love those things!

Easily one of the best videos on blueberries I have ever seen! Thank you!

Love the way she presents. Great information.

Amazing video! Thanks for tips

Thankyou so much. There is really some good education 🙏

Great video and explanations. I’m definitely doing this method this year

Very informative. Thank you! 💙

I'm so glad you shared this! We moved to a new home only to find out that squirrels and birds are our new friend, but not such good friends for our garden!

This video is so helpful. We put pine or fir sawdust around our plants each year (in ground). Ours have been happy for many years. The pH is important.

This is such an incredibly helpful video. You guys nailed it!

I loved this video! Thanks for the wealth of information!

I got a Bushel and Berry blueberry from Starks Brothers. I didn't get too many berries last season, but hopefully , this season. It's a cute little plant.

Top hat variety worked really well for me when I was growing on the east Coast 👍 produces nice size clusters of berries and is pretty good if you don't have a lot of space

Great tutorial! I don’t have any questions. U answered them all!! Ty😊

What about using a large 1/2 whiskey barrel for the blueberries? I have one that is empty now that I can use. Instead of using bird netting, I use the fabric Tulle in my garden. You can get it at any fabric store, Walmart or Amazon. It's awesome and doesn't harm the birds like bird netting does. Thanks for your information!

I really appreciate this video as I want to plant berry bushes this coming spring, At 60 years old I have never grown berries, yet 😊

Thank you for the helpful hints!!!!

They are my favorite. I'm just learning all this but I cant wait to start! Perennial Power! Blueberry fields FOREVER

Very well explained. Thank you. Now I’m looking forward to trying to grow them.

I went a little nuts this year. OSU has a great resource for Blueberries in Ohio. I chose to go with Duke (May), Bluegold (June), Bonus(July), Elliot(August), and Pink Icing(July). The first four are a year old with their chill hours. The Pink Icing won't produce till next year. I am super excited to enjoy blueberries all season long.

Perfect timing on this video! Exactly what I was looking for!

Just got me some bushel and berry blueberries. Glad I found you as a video option. Been watching your videos for a while. Specially since I started growing dragon fruit that I saw your background 😃

I love Meg. She is so calm, beautiful and this video is full of great tips! Loved it ❤

Definitely some great ideas and very thorough information

Thank you Kevin And Meg! Very information Didn’t think much when she was using your grow bag, over the 20 inch container I already have until she showed the little pocket that is for the drip line OMG, so excited definitely buying your grow bags!! I had it duct, taped, Jimmy rigged, you name it could not get my drip line to stay on my big containers for nothing. L O L. Once again, Thank you both. Hope to see more videos with you both

Just ordered grow bags from your store. I've been wanting to grow blueberries. I've been doing container gardening, but only have 5 gallons containers. The tips shared are greatly appreciated. Now to wait to find blueberry bushes for sale.

Great vid. Nice concise, detailed. Definitely, beginner friendly. I left feeling confident that I could buy a blueberry bush and be successful in my area. Very valuable!

Instead of bird netting or feeding the birds, go to a local fabric store and buy a bolt of tulle. Not expensive and the openings are very small. Easy to handle and does the job.

This is sooo helpful! Thank you!

Perfect timing! I just bought a blackberry plant a few days ago❤I want a blueberry too and this helps make my decision ❤

Best BB video I have watched so far.

Excellent advice. I have blueberries in whiskey barrels. The acidifier shown is what I use and it’s really simple to use. I was advised to use a berry tone from the same brand but haven’t tried it yet. I had a small harvest my second year but the birds got to them first. I’ll be adding a net when the berries start forming. I do feed the birds and have a native plant bed for foraging options for birds but they took the berries anyway. I’ll see about adding more bird feeders as well. I have early bloomers. They bloom and harvest in early spring. I have the regular blue and also a pink lemonade. The fall colors they bring are really beautiful and are different depending on the variety. A really stunning show and well worth the bird issue.

Meg is great. Blueberry containers is my next goal, thank you!

My birds not only get fed (where the feeder is literally always full) they also get a bird bath with freshly changed water 🤣 I started calling them extortionists in my head, and it’s all because I want to eat my berries!

SUPER helpful! Thank you!

Great video ! I might start growing berries this year. BTW Mexico is part of North America as well (you can look it up on the internet ) :)

Awesome video!❤

Thank you Kevin for having Meg teach us the blueberry magic. As a good host, never forget to thank your contributors/partners at the end of the video for their contribution to your channel. This came at a perfect time as I want to grow blueberries this year.