Low bush blueberry

 Low BlueBerry Bush

 Lowbush Blueberry
Vaccinium Angustifolium Aiton

The lowbush blueberry plant makes excellent landscape plants around the house or in the home garden. In May, they are covered with white-to-light-pink flowers just before the dark blue-green leaves completely unfold. From late July to August, you will find fresh berries for picking, and using in all your favorite blueberry recipes.

The low-bush blueberry is a low, open-growing
shrub reaching 6" to 12" in height and spreading to 2′.
It is hardy in zones 2 to 6. The flowers appearing in
April/May are small, white, and tinged with red. The
fruit is a bluish black, very sweet berry, 1/4" to 1/2"

In autumn, the leaves turn into a lovely color range from orange to burgundy.
Use high-bush blueberry, Vaccinium corymbosum,
as an informal hedge or specimen plant. Low-bush
blueberry, Vaccinium angustifolium, makes a good
ground cover or edging plant for borders.

Growing Benefits Of Lowbush Blueberry Plants:

• Aromatic flowers supply nectar for butterflies and other pollinators
• Attract butterflies to your garden used as a larval food source for several butterflies
• Adored by birds and other wildlife
• Bushes offer good nesting and cover for birds
• Highly cold tolerant ground cover that will grow well in dry, acid soil

Growing and Maintenance Tips For Lowbush Blueberry Plants

• Keep blueberries away from house foundations or walls with lime foundations
• Do not plant them among junipers or other plants that prefer neutral soil.
• Blueberries need at least 6 hours a day of sunshine, best to plant in full.
• Blueberries need a sunny area with good air circulation
• Plant in well-drained, acidic soil
• Works well as a planted as a ground cover on slopes
• Harvest in late June through August

Managing Large Lowbush Blueberry Fields

Sometimes a lowbush blueberry planting is developed where lowbush blueberries already grow. Original planting were logged and or burned to get rid of all of the above ground foliage then new shoots would sprout from below ground. Where lowbush blueberries were common in the forest understory a lot of or the majority of these shoots would be from blueberry plants. After many years the site would be burned again so that ultimately the site would become a pure planting of lowbush blueberries.

There’s a lot of variability in expansion, leaf color fruit color and taste and lots of other facets of the plant. Fruit buds formed in the axils of the leaves. Highbush blueberries produce a crop of berries each year and so do wild lowbush blueberries but managed lowbush blueberry stands produce a crop every other year.
After crop lowbush blueberry fields are burned or mowed to the ground. The following year, new sprouts appear and grow forming flower buds in the autumn. The following spring these shoots flower and bear fruit, which is cropped, and the field is mowed again. This ends up in a 2 year crop cycle for the field.
Commercial lowbush blueberry growers routinely have half their fields in the off or sprout year and half in the one year with fruit. Having short one-year shoots is an advantage when cropping because lowbush blueberries are raked off the plants using hand rakes or mechanical harvesters. The two-year growing system produces tons of long unbranched shoots that make it simple to crop the fruit off the stems.

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The Lowbush or Wild Blueberry, Vaccinium angustifolium, is the most cold hardy type.

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