homedad
Silver Member
I tried all of this about 25 years ago and they all died because I didn't have the correct ph or soil type. I tried mounding and amending with lots of sand and I already lived in a white and jack pine forest so used lots of composted pine needles. I gave up. Two years ago I purchased 5 acres about a 1/2 mile from Lake Michigan and it's all beach sand under the 3" of topsoil. I think the sand is the key. I have probably hundreds of volunteer blueberry bushes as the entire region is saturated by blueberry farms. When I say topsoil it's more of a mat of roots with some loam floating on top of the sand. And the sand seems bottomless. I've got 20" healthy oaks that just blew over and exposed root balls the size of cars. The blueberry plants seem to love the sand.