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What to plant between blueberries?

 
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Title pretty much says it all.  See picture for scale idea.

Just planted the 2 rows in the last couple days.  So it’s a blank slate.
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My first thought was strawberries.

I think that the aisle where your doggie is posing will get smaller as the berries fill out and grow. So I'd suggest something annual, or a short-lived perennial.
 
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Tons of strawberries already elsewhere.  

There’s 8’ between the rows.  As I understand it the blueberries will get 4’ wide, so we should have ~4’ between the edges of the bushes when mature.
 
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From my research,  potatoes don't mind the high levels of acid in a properly blueberry soul.
 
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i don’t know if you’ve got space for it there, but i’ve been thinking about how to add tea camellia to a blueberry planting. maybe a tea at the end of each row or section of row.
 
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Ooooh, I like that idea.  Probably not feasible to have my friends in Assam send me seeds.  But they’re not hard to find here anyway.
 
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Thyme does really good for both the berries and the itself. But really, how much thyme do you need?
 
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Dan Fish wrote:Thyme does really good for both the berries and the itself. But really, how much thyme do you need?



I'll take all the thyme I can get!
 
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In the wild I've often seen wintergreen growing under blueberry bushes.
 
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