Ok,then.How many gallons should a 10 year old very large blueberry shrub produce.?

Question

I have over 500 blueberry shrubs,bushes,trees,whatever,they are 12 -14 ft so they surely look like trees.Anyways I may have to take out 30 or so for a driveway and I want to know if its worth the money to try to transplant them.They are 10-15 years old and I sell them by the gallon.It will be a pick your own farm by next year and I will also sell them already picked by the gallon or half gallon.So is it wurth renting a digger to try to transplant them,or is it worth the time and money/I need to know how many gallons each one should produce.

Answer 1

"With proper preparation and a little patience, you’ll be rewarded with 10 to 25 pounds of delicious, nutritious “blues” per bush, each and every year."

If you were planting new bushes... wouldn't you be spending money for someone to dig the holes anyway? So if you negotiate the digging of new holes along with the digging up & replanting of the bushes, it might not cost much more than starting with new bushes.

As long as the bushes are healthy, it just might be worth the effort... when you consider the time it takes for a bush to mature.

Good luck!

Answer 2

I am not positive on this but we have a blueberry farm in town and they have let it go... so to speak since the family had no one to continue with the work. When I asked about it to a friend and why no one else takes on the project they told me that the plants have a productive life of good blueberry production of about 20 years. Not really sure as I said but there looked like there were plenty of berries just falling to the ground when I was there last year. I'd search this one out on Google before I went to the trouble and expense. We have only a couple plants but they do need to be pruned and fed for a good production.