| Unless you have been living under a rock the last few | | | | that produces beautiful white blooms every spring. In |
| years, you are familiar with the buzz surrounding the | | | | the summer, the plant provides those delicious |
| many health benefits of blueberries. With the | | | | berries. Finally, in the winter, the foliage of the |
| increased health consciousness of our society, many | | | | Highbush turns a brilliant, fiery red. This is truly a |
| people are including blueberries in their diet because | | | | beautiful, three season superstar that is perfect for |
| of their anti-oxidant, nutrition, and stress relief | | | | any garden. |
| properties. While improved health is one reason to | | | | Growing the Highbush plant takes a little extra work. |
| eat blueberries, for the home gardener, growing a | | | | This plant, as with all varieties, requires an acidic soil, |
| specific variety of blueberry bush will provide a | | | | proper drainage, and some sun during every day. If |
| year-round, beautiful addition to the home landscape. | | | | you live in an area where the soil is alkaline, you need |
| The Highbush Blueberry variety is considered by most | | | | to be sure to amend the soil with compost, peat |
| as the variety that produces the sweetest | | | | moss, or a fertilizer that improves the acidity value of |
| blueberries of all. Typically, these berries are larger | | | | your soil (pH level). If you are unsure of your soil's pH |
| than those produced by other varieties. Most | | | | level, you may purchase a soil test kit at most |
| impressive, the Highbush plant produces about four | | | | nurseries and home improvement stores. Keep in |
| pints of blueberries per day! For the blueberry | | | | mind: a higher acidity level, say around 5, is what you |
| enthusiast, the berries produced by this variety | | | | need to successfully grow blueberries. |
| should be the berry of choice. | | | | Whether blueberries are part of your daily diet, or |
| In addition to its prolific berry production, the | | | | you are a home gardener looking for that perfect |
| Highbush plant provides the home gardener with | | | | addition to your landscape, the Highbush Blueberry |
| many reasons to add it to their landscape. The | | | | plant is the one for you. |
| Highbush is a magnificent, compact flowering shrub | | | | |