High bush blueberry plants.

I'v struggled with these family plants for years and I think it comes down to the forest encroaching and they are losing in the battle for sunlight. I'm going to give them a new home that for years to come they will have plenty. I've cleared the area for several new plants/bushes and planted a cover crop to feed the soil.

Question is: Replant now or wait till spring? I'm in grow zone 5b..

i’d do it in the fall after they go dormant.

greg mosser wrote:i’d do it in the fall after they go dormant.

That's interesting! Hadn't gone there yet.. My though was get the transplant shock over with while the season is still here and recovery time..

Thank you for this

The rabbits and deer shredded all my bushes this year. I thought they wouldn’t take the old growth (they hadn’t in the past, just the fresh shoots and leaves) but they annihilated even the oldest bits. And often just chewed them off at the base and left them lying around the garden. Like they aren’t even hungry, just want to kill the plants.

/rant

Rj Howell wrote:That's interesting! Hadn't gone there yet.. My though was get the transplant shock over with while the season is still here and recovery time..

root growth continues slowly through the fall and spring and depending on your winters, then too. so transplanting early in the dormancy of the tops can actually head off transplant shock and get the plants more ready to take off growing in the spring.