A website from UGA Cooperative Extension

I attended a blueberry training earlier this week in Gainseville, FL. We stopped at Island Grove nursery and toured their farm. In the below picture are 2 year old Meadowlark blueberries.

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In order to get fertilizer through the plastic mulch they cut slits in the plastic and use special equipment to blow fertilizer through each opening.

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The fertilizer is blown in each opening using the equipment seen in the below pictures

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I’d say the results speak for themselves!

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