Where do Blueberries grow best? Will the soil in a garden in Southern California grow them?

Question

If you want to grow blueberries in your garden and you live in Southern California?

Answer 1

The sort Jubilee  is recommended throughout the South and in California in areas that receive ar least 500 chilling hours.

Sunshine Blue is suitable for Southern California too.

This site shows the different varieties and where they grow best:

http://www.weeksberry.com/BLUE.HTML

Blueberries have a vital need for a very specialized kind of soil: highly acidic soil, with a pH in the range of 4.0 to not over 5.5 (ideally from 4.5 to 4.8).

That`s the reason why they often are cultivated in pots because it`s not easy to alter soil pH drastically.

Here some sites with a lot of cultivation tips and hints, mindful of these problems:

http://growingtaste.com/fruit/blueberrie...

http://www.canr.msu.edu/vanburen/e-2066....

http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/hil/h...

California specific:

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1...

Answers/forum:

http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/...

Good luck!!!