Hi Kiki,

Let me go read your other post. Hmm It is too bad they don't have names on them. What county are you located in? Would it be possible to post pictures of the blueberry and blackberry plants?

In your other post you said the plant was a raspberry and this one says it is a blackberry? The problem is some of the stores like Lowes, Home Depot or Walmart sell fruiting plants that won't grow here so I hope that is not where your husband bought them. They sell ones that will grow here also but without the variety names it is tough to know what he bought.

The blackberry raspberry first....

They are pretty easy. Give them as much sun as you can and mulch them heavily with something that will break down and they will be happy.

Blueberries are my favorite plant:) as you could tell by the fact I have 125 of them at last count. The blueberries are a little more particular as they must have acid soil. Full sun. Keep them moist, never let them get dry. Fertilize very lightly monthly with a acid type fertilizer like a camellia formula. The easiest way is to plant them in a mixture of pine bark fines and peat moss. The peat comes in 3 cubic foot bales at say Lowes for $10 a bale. The pine fines Walmart sells and the bag is purple and labeled just as pine mulch. Mix the pine and well wetted peat together, 50/50 is fine in a spot 3 feet across and put the plant in the center and mulch with more of the pine fines. I know you said the the blueberries are already planted but if you just put them in the ground we have they will die TRUST ME.......it will do no harm to pull them back up and replant if you don't they have zero chance and will slowly wither.

Far as the red leaves.....it could be a couple things. Here in Florida well cared for BB bushes are just about evergreen. Blueberry leaves will turn red just like leaves do up north before they fall...so if the leaves are old that is probably why. Not all varieties wake up or releaf on the same schedule so that could be why the one is different from the other 3. If the leaves are new it is probably because the soil PH is off.

See, Told ya! ;-) Resident guru.

I got my blueberry knowledge from this here poster. :-D

yea mine died in the ground re trying in large (LARGE) pots where i can more easily make sure they stay moist and in acid soil :) thanks for all the great knowledge I was going to give up on blueberries