Somebody PLEASE help me help our blueblerry plant

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Everything says we need 'ericacerous' or acid soil and fertiliser.

Went to Homebase yesterday and there wasn't a soul around aside on the tills.

I couldn't find any soil that said it was 'acidic'.

Or food/fertiliser.

Any clue what other names it might go under?

they need sandy acidic soil, ericaceous is the next best thing.

they might take a few years to produce any fruit though (sorry)

ericaceous means it's good for growing heathers in, if that helps.
My blueberry is not doing too well either as we have the wrong soil.

Thanks!

The girls were growing bored as I went back and forth along the same aisles, just looking and looking for some of the proper soil.

I've Googled it, but I'm not having good joy here.

I need some small pebbles for drainage, too.

We're so hoping to make a go of this one!

DD1 is all excited. It has wee berries on it already.

We got it from a promotion in BBC Good Food mag. It came as a cutting.

I got some generic organic fruit food from B&Q and have been feeding mine with that, it seems quite happy and has a good crop of berries on it again this year.

do you have any strawberry plants? we had 2 cuttings last year (newspaper freebie) and I'm really impressed with how much fruit we've had from them - every day we good a good handful for our cereal my girls love going out and picking them, seeing if they are ripe enough

No, not yet, but that's our next purchase

Does anyone know of any good gardening websites that offer products like this for purchase.

I have blueberry bushes too, doing well in what I believe to be neutral soil. The lady at our (very good) garden centre said not to bother trying to make the soil acidic unless they were in a pot.

www.crocus.co.uk

is ag reat site

They're in a pot. They will be in a pot, albeit a very large one, hopefully, in the future.

So mix peat with sand - that should get you something apporximating their requirements....
(peat is usually acidic)

We got out bag of ericaceous compost from a garden centre. Look by the piles of compost of various types. Usually outside. Only give them rainwater too. .

Mine has produced quite a large bowl full in it's gfrist year.

blueberries also need to be quite wet, and to be watered with rainwater.

Save your teabags and use them as a mulch, they are pretty acid and keep the soil damp. Not very beautiful of course, but you can always hide them under a layer of compost.

Ken Muir are great for fruit plants by mail order.