Vaccinium corymbosum Bluecrop / Myrtille Bluecrop/ Blueberry Bluecrop

Vaccinium corymbosum Bluecrop
Myrtille à gros fruits Bluecrop 2L Pot
Blueberry Bluecrop 2L Pot

La Myrtille 'Bluecrop' est une variété classique avec des grappes de gros fruits fermes et parfumés, riches en vitamine C.

D'une très bonne productivité, elle permet des récoltes de mi juillet à fin août. Cette variété s'accommode d'un emplacement ensoleillé ou ombragé.

Il est conseillé de la planter de préférence par 2 pour une meilleure pollinisation et une meilleure récolte. Biner régulièrement et arroser copieusement la première année.

La récolte se fait l’été, en août.

This popular variety should always be chosen for planting either by itself or in a collection of varieties. Vigorous upright habit. Bell shaped flowers in spring followed by heavy crops of good flavoured fruit. Excellent autumn foliage. Considered the best all around variety for consistent yields with large, high quality fruit, and disease resistance. Bluecrop is an upright, open growing bush to 4-6 feet. There are other varieties with better ornamental value but none better in the garden.

Plant Care

If you have purchased your blueberry plant during its winter dormant season, then there is no need to do anything except plant it, until the plant emerges from the winter.

When the leaves have emerged fully, usually towards the end of April, your plant will need its first feed. A balanced ericaceous fertiliser (rhododendron/azalea fertiliser) is recommended.

Repeat feeding the plant at the end of June because blueberries have a second stage of growth in late summer. The whole of your plants' root system should be kept moist throughout the growing season, preferably using rainwater as this tends to be acidic. As the fruit starts to colour, try to cover the plants with bird netting to avoid theft of your precious blueberries. In mid to late summer, long canes will grow up through the bush. This is the framework for the future. Pinching out the tips of this growth will encourage a bushy plant, as done for fuchsias and chrysanthemums.

Pruning is carried out after leaf fall, in mid winter while the plants are dormant. For the first two years after planting, your bushes will need very little pruning, except general tidying up and shortening of very long canes to encourage branching.