My dude and I went to my favorite nursery and found some evergreen huckleberries! We’ve been wanting more of these awesome plants and were thrilled to find them. Hang with me a bit as I plant them along the new fence.
UPDATE: They all survived!! I have lost about half of the stems on one of them, but the rest are full of gorgeous pink-white blooms! Check for the next state of the garden posted after this comment and I’ll be sure to show them off!
@@tiffanyinthepnw1913 Lesson learned. Ive killed probablu 95% of all my plants at some point in their life haha. Thank you for the help I really appreciate it!
How are your Huckleberry Bushes doing now 3 years later? I bought a dozen that came potless, but with soil around most of the roots. I potted them up and have them under a growlight for the time being until I decide where to plant them outside.
I could not have loved your video more. I have only met a few people who love huckleberries as much as I do and growing up in Pacific Grove, Ca, they were part of my life. We moved to Auburn, Ca, in the Sierra Foothills, six years ago and we travel back home every year to pick our beloved berries. We’ve tried, and failed, miserably, to grow them here(zone 9), and wonder if there’s a way to successfully grow them. Any tips?
Auburn seems like it would be possible. Have you tried planting them in full shade on a north facing slope? The same kind of environment sword ferns would grow in
I have property in NW Montana and have a huckleberry bush by the river but the wildlife usually beat me to it. I bought some huckleberry seeds and thought I would try and add down by the river. I was told you can’t get them because they die when planting so I thought I would plant seeds. Do you know the difference between Evergreen Huckleberries and Garden Huckleberries?
There are many types of plants called huckleberries. Garden huckleberry is in the solanum family I believe while evergreen are in the vaccinium family.
Garden huckleberry is kinda terrible compared to other huckleberry varieties in my experience. They just are not as sweet or have the flavor of the true wild varieties. Tried a couple different garden huckleberry and not been too happy with them.
You think it will work here in israel? if I'll give them their chill hours (put them in the fridge for a month approx) but in the spring and the summer the temperatures can get extremely high compare to USA.. Like even 43°C sometimes.. Oh and it's important to note that I grow blueberries here from several varieties that require even 800 chilling hours and get shrubs are full of fruits and flower!
@@tiffanyinthepnw1913 I'm actually grow goji berry here!! Black and red. But I really wanted to try some new things.. and evergreen huckleberries look really good.. do you know how many chilling hours he require?
@@tiffanyinthepnw1913 Oh, so we have here in the Negev (kind of province in South of Israel) approx 250 in one winter.. you think it would do well? If I will spray it with cold water in the hot hours twice - 3 times a day in the summer?
@@user-hp3tb1lx5u keep them in full shade. There is not a lot of moisture in the pacific northwest in the summer, it is our dry season, so I would not water them multiple times a day and maybe not everyday, but that depends on how dry your soil gets. Make sure to add mulch.
If North Carolina has acidic soil, I'd assume so. Otherwise, you'd have to take special care to acidify the soil appropriately, including keeping soil pH testers on hand if it starts dying out.
Ti H - they were past their fruit time when I planted them last season. They transplanted well and I didn’t lose any over the winter. They should start getting flowers in the next month or so and I’ll show them off again then.
Super difficult to keep cuttings of these alive. I have some I salvaged from various woodland locations and out of my 50 cuttings 7 survived. And this was with careful care and monitoring moisture levels both morning and afternoon
