Blueberry 'Bluecrop'

Blueberry ‘Bluecrop’ produces delicious fruit, naturally high in vitamins and antioxidants. Blueberries are excellent in pies and make delicious jams and preserves. Best of all, bake blueberry muffins with fresh fruit from your garden! Aside from its culinary use, Blueberry ‘Bluecrop’ is a beautiful hedge with seasonal interest in the landscape. This productive shrub offers spring flowering on dark green foliage, fruit in the summer, and fiery red foliage for autumn color.

Blueberry ‘Bluecrop’ is an early fruiting variety that produces a heavy crop of light-blue berries full of flavor. It is a vigorous shrub with an upright habit and has good drought resistance. However, like all blueberries, they must have moist, acidic soil to flourish.

Large Yields
Disease Resistant
Excellent fruit for freezing
Non-GMO

Close-up of a Bluecrop blueberry on a bush, with soft focus.

Bluecrop blueberry bush teeming with fruit

Bluecrop blueberries overflowing a small bowl on a table, soft focus

Plant Details +

Botanical	Vaccinium corymbosum 'Bluecrop'
Cultivator Type	Highbush
Common Name	Blueberry 'Bluecrop'
Family	Ericaceae
Height	4-6'
Spacing	3-4'
Hardiness	Zones 4-7
Exposure	Full sun to Part Shade
Foliage	Large, dark green
Fruit	Light Blue
Harvest	Midsummer

Planting/Care Instructions +

Planting Instructions: Prepare the ground well before planting. Blueberries prefer an acid soil. In alkaline soil, add ammonium sulfate for best results. Dig a hole large enough to encompass the roots without bending or circling. Set the plant in place so the crown (part of the plant where the root meets the stem) is about 1-2 inches below the soil surface. When planting, add generous amounts of peat but no fertilizer. Cover with soil to the original soil surface and water thoroughly. Blueberries can also be grown in large pots and containers if compost is used. Prune in winter, cutting out dead or damaged branches. In spring, feed with sulphate of ammonia, sulphate of potash, bonemeal and top-dress with compost.

Pests or Diseases: No serious insect or disease problems. You can protect fruit from birds with netting.