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BeerBasket
Joined: 04 May 2003
Posts: 33
Location: Burleson
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| Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 7:13 am Post subject: Blueberries |
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| What is the best variety of Blueberries for the Fort worth area? Any suggestions for planting and protecting from birds would also be helpful. I understand it will take 2-3 years before plants will produce fruit. Is this correct? |
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dragonfly
Joined: 20 May 2003
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Location: parker county, texas
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| Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 8:06 pm Post subject: |
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| THis is my opinion, and probably not very popular among other posters, but there is not a good blueberry variety for this area because our soil is too alkaline and has too much clay, plus our climate is too hot and we have a relatively short cold season. In almost thirty years of gardening in the DFW area, I have never known anyone who successfully grew productive blueberries. |
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Tony M
Joined: 31 Mar 2003
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Location: McKinney,TEXAS
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| Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 8:56 am Post subject: |
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Beerbasket-
Call or visit http://www.txberry.com/. It's a u-pick black and blueberry patch between Sherman and Gainesville. Also check out this publication:
http://attra.ncat.org/attra-pub/blueberry.html
Tony M |
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