Do you grow a variety called ‘Berkeley’?
Do you grow a variety called ‘Coville’?
Do you grow a variety called ‘Herbert’?
Do you grow a variety called ‘Duke’?
Do you grow a variety called ‘O’Neal’?
Do you grow a variety called ‘Spartan’?
Do you grow a variety called ‘Jersey’?
Do you grow a variety called ‘Bluetta’?
Do you grow a variety called ‘Bluecrop’?
This popular garden variety bears attractive, powder-blue fruits with a mild flavor. It is easy to grow and has good disease resistance. In mild climates, one bush will bear decent-sized yields, but it will be less productive in frost pockets.
‘Coville’ is a vigorous and spreading variety that reliably bears large, deep-blue berries with a sweet flavor very late in the season. The fruits can be left on the bush for a long time before they fall.
This late-season variety is considered by many to produce the most flavorful blueberries. A vigorous, upright bush, it bears heavy, compact clusters of very large, firm, dark blue berries that have an exceptional, sweet flavor.
One of the most consistent and heaviest producers, this variety bears medium-sized, light-blue, firm berries with a mild, sweet flavor. Although late-flowering, it crops early, so it is ideal for areas where the season is short.
This Southern hybrid withstands summer heat and winter chill, and produces an early crop of large, flavorful fruits. The plants grow to 6 ft (1.8 m) and are unaffected by diseases. Self-fertile, it produces a better crop with another variety.
‘Spartan’ is early to a mid-season variety that bears very large, light blue fruits with a tangy, sweet flavor. For the best crops, plant another variety nearby. The upright habit makes harvesting easy; do so before the leaves turn bright red in fall.
One of the oldest and most reliable blueberry varieties, each bush produces large crops of dark blue, small-to-medium-sized berries with a mild, sweet flavor. In fall, the leaves turn a fiery yellow-orange color.
This is a vigorous and very productive variety that bears good crops of medium-sized, light blue berries with a sweet flavor. It has a compact growth, so it is good for containers, and flowers late, making it ideal for colder areas.
This is a popular, midseason variety that bears high yields of large, firm, light-blue fruits with a good flavor. It is a vigorous plant, drought- and frost-resistant, and has attractive fiery orange and copper leaves in fall.
‘Ochlockonee’ rabbiteye blueberries, native to the southeastern US, are generally disease-free and more tolerant of heat than northern blueberries. ‘Ochlockonee’ grows to 10 ft (3 m); it produces good yields of crack-resistant, late-ripening berries.
A. Baggaley, G. Barter, H. Caldon, R.L. Rosenfeld, P. Ruch, D. Vowles, R. Ward (2011). Great Fruit & Vegetable Guide, DK Publishing 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014
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Hi! I’m Sreten Filipović. I graduated from the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Belgrade, with a master's degree in Environmental Protection in Agricultural Systems. I’ve worked as a researcher at Finland's Natural Resources Institute (LUKE) on a project aimed at adapting south-western Finland to drought episodes. I founded a consulting agency in the field of environment and agriculture to help farmers who want to implement the principles of sustainability on their farms. I’m also a founding member of the nonprofit organization Ecogenesis from Belgrade whose main goal is non-formal education on the environment and ecology. In my spare time, I like to write blog posts about sustainability, the environment, animal farming, horticulture, and plant protection. I’ve also published several science-fiction short stories.
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