The blueberries I grow in Berkeley.

Dear Nan & List, 9/24/99
I have been using my long parking strip, 126' x 4' that faces
NW as a blueberry farm for 15 years. Many of the earliest plants
no longer bear readable signs but here follows a list of mosts
high-bush blueberries I grow in zone 16/17. We are governed by
SF weather 85 % of the time and inland heat 15 %. It never has
reached 100F and the low during the 1990 freeze was 19F.

My entire garden gets overhead water, mostly from dawn to 10 AM.
The woodland and blueberry walk are watered 4 days a week, twice
each day for about 7 minutes. The drought slope is watered on
June 1, July 1, and August 1 for 6 hours each time.

BLUEBERRIES GROWN AT REALLY SPECIAL PLANTS & GARDENS

1) Earliblue
2) Bluetta
3) Berkeley-very successful
4) Duke
5) Spartan-these are always the size of quarters
6) Blueray
7) Patriot
8) Bluejay
9) Toro
10) Bluecrop-exceptionally sweet
11) Nelson
12) Jersey
13) Darrow
14) Elliot
15) Sunshine Blue - an evergreen blueberry with glaucous foliage, practically
no chill requirement-recommended for zones 16-24 and exceptionally good in
containers. Been on the market about four years but we've been growing it
for ten. Hot pink flowers. Small delicious fruit. Self fertile. Available
from Greer Gardens and Gossler Farms.
16) Northcountry
17) Northsky
18) Northblue
19) Northland
20) Sierra
21) Olympia - only 1 year old
22) Legacy
23) Polaris
24) Chippewa
25) Chandler
26) Georgia Gem - only 1 year old
27) Sunrise
28) Bluegold
29) O'Neal
30) Bluebelle
Michael Barclay, D.Lett. opga@wenet.net
Opera Education International/OEI
400 Yale Ave, Berkeley, CA 94708-1109
http://www.operalover.net Please visit our website soon.
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