Hi Johnny and welcome to the forum. I don't do veggies so I have no suggestions for you but you'll get lots of advice here, I'm sure. It never seems fair to me that the time of year people are putting in their fall crops is the same time of year that the storms are rolling in.

Kate

Hi,Johnny!
Blueberries like acid soil. You might amend the soil by raising the ph level. Adding pine needle as compost into the ground may help.
Felix

Thanks countrynest. I did add peat moss as a side dressing after discovering the horse manure would send the Ph towards alkaline, and that seemed to help. Are composted pine needles alkaline? We stopped at a park and gathered some needles that are in placed in another part of the garden. I'll move some over to the berries.

Won't coffee grounds work under the blueberry plants?

Coffee grounds do work really well. Pine needles compost puts acid into the soil as well as peat moss as you have done,Johnny.
Felix

I planted a blueberry patch of 24 plants 2 months ago. I was told to use only pine products and peat moss with it because of the low pH need. Because the peat moss pH had been adjusted to 6 before I bought it I added some wettable sulfur to my new planting medium. Absolutely no compost because it will send the pH up. For immediate relief, you could give the blueberry plants a foliar feeding of some Miracle Gro for acid loving plants. You are going to have to get a pH meter or chemicals to keep an eye on the pH because it will want to keep rising. I don't drink coffee so I don't have any grounds.

Horse manure will be excellent for your vegetable garden. Just make sure that it isn't too fresh or it will burn your plants. Also, be aware that it will be loaded with weed seeds.

The only thing that I have planted recently are a dozen of my tomato seedlings.

Happy, The coffee grounds start going into the blueberries this morning. Thank you for the advice. This network has already been very valuable to me, kind of like a small town. Does anyone know of a good gardening nursery/feed store in northern Pinellas or southern Pasco counties (vegitable gardening)? Or, is there a club in my area?
Another question: My sweet potatoes have entirely covered the 10 X 15 foot raised bed and are now a couple of feet into the yard, growing outward at almost a foot a day! I'm putting horse manure under the shoots, and they seem to love it. Will the roots that form on the shoots make potatoes? If these things survived a frost, I'd let them have the whole yard, but maybe I need to curtail them.

johnny, back off of the horse manure! It is loaded with nitrogen which will tell your plant to grow leaves, not tubers. It's getting late in the year to be pushing that much growth.