Growing Blueberries in pots

I just bought two small Blueberry bushes for my daughter.

She lives in the City, but has a small yard she can use, and is asking me if
Blueberries can grow in pots.
She rents the 1st floor of a single home and has started gardening.
The soil there must be miraculous--as everything grows like crazy.
Good old clay soil-- I guess...I am amazed!

Her soil everywhere seems so very fertile--she puts my garden to shame.
BUT--it is hard to dig anywhere, as there are roots and rocks all around.

Could she pot them in bigger pots just for one season till she can find out
where to make a new bed? The 2 plants are already in bloom--so I guess
some berries will be soon behind.

Your opinions please! Thanks, Gita

Here are the two pots I bought.

Oh, sure. Northern Highbush blueberries like Bluejay get pretty big so they aren't a great candidate for permanent container culture, but they will be fine for a year. They will appreciate being transplanted in the fall.

Nicole--
Thank you. I will send my daughter any other suggestions i receive.

Gita

I'll have to go check the cultivar, but I was told by a professional grower that some blueberries can stay in large pots. Also this one is self-fertile, so it's definitely working for small spaces. I'll go find the name a little later.

The tag says BlueJay, that variety is standard highbush size.

Blueberries won't grow in Colorado because of our alkaline soil. The solution we have come up with is to grow them in bales of peat. I buy the bales at Walmart, pierce the bottom with pitch-fork, slit an "X" in the top with scissors, remove enough peat to make room for the roots, and plant them directly into the plastic wrapped peat bale. It is a container of sorts - wider than it is deep, the blueberries seem to like it. I will use a water soluable fertilizer once in a while. The stuff they used to call Miracid but is now miricle gro for azaleas (?) is what we usually use here. But if you don't have alkaline water like I do, you could probably use any water soluable fertilizer.
So the answer is yes, blueberries can be grown in a large wide container in a peaty soil mix.

I put in three new ones this year, I have two older ones (2 & 3 years) and I am going to put in two more eventually. All different varieties cold hardy to zone 4 or 5.

This message was edited May 26, 2015 5:36 PM