How to plant blueberries at home to have endless supplies and never buy them again?

Slightly sweet, the blueberry is a dark red to purple fruit that is distinguished by its richness in vitamins including vitamin K, trace elements and mineral salts. Indeed, this small fruit contains significant quantities of magnesium, potassium, calcium, iron, zinc and vanadium. Coming from the blueberry bush, a shrub of the Ericaceae family, blueberries are both tasty and low in calories. To harvest blueberries, you can learn how to plant the shrub at home.

In various sweet preparations such as pies, muffins or even juices, blueberries retain their taste while offering a range of benefits to the body. Cultivated for its fruit, the blueberry bush can grow in the garden or in a large pot placed on the balcony.

The blueberry bush: two species to distinguish
The blueberry bush

There are two species of blueberry bush:

Vaccinium myrtillus, a wild blueberry bush that measures between 20 and 50 cm in height and has persistent foliage. The latter is generally grown in heather soil in moors, or in woods and clearings
Vaccinium corymbosum, a shrubby blueberry bush 1.5 to 2 meters in height that is easily grown in pots, in garden soil or in the vegetable garden.
From May, the clusters of white bells appear on the shrub.
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