Northeast Gardening: What makes blueberries tasty?, 2 by pollengarden

pollengarden wrote:
1) Blueberry Bushes growing in Peat bales - I want to expand to 6 bushes/varieties for a longer harvest period.

2) My lime soil - worst case - not even weeds. I know this is the kind of shale they grind up & toast to make cement mix. I think it might also be the kind they grind up to make lime to apply to soils.

3) Since I live near the Rockies, I know there is indeed native plants that actually prefer rocky soil. The tree is a Ponderosa Pine, at it's base are cold-hardy cactus - both like rocks and good drainage. They are growing in a pile of good topsoil mixed 50/50 with rock/gravel/sand. The bush is a Rabbitbrush - it likes slmost opposite conditions. They will grow in our salty alkaline clay if they get a little extra water - namely the runoff from the Ponderosa.