Berries & vines · perennial season
Blueberry
Vaccinium corymbosum
Highbush blueberries love Ohio if you give them acid soil (pH 4.5–5.5). They fail in sweet clay without help.
- When to plant in Ohio
- Plant potted bushes in April or October
- Harvest window
- June through August, depending on variety
- Days to maturity
- Perennial; light crop year two, full by year four
- Spacing
- 4–5 ft; plant two varieties
- Light
- Full sun
How to grow it
Plant in a peat/pine-bark bed or large pots. Mulch with pine needles. Net against birds. Bluecrop, Duke, and Elliott stagger the season. Water in July droughts or fruit shrivels. Prune old canes in late winter.
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Blackberry Perennial; first real crop year two
Grape Perennial; first crop year three