Just want to add that I’ve been taking the winter coop run litter out each year and spread it on the blueberries for mulch. This does NOT include poop tray litter (chopped hemp and chicken poop) which I think is too much nitrogen per carbon to soak it up. Poop tray litter gets composted along with kitchen waste for garden use. Blueberries don’t want or need a lot of nitrogen. They need well-draining, very acid soil and steady moisture.
Anyway every bush has done well except one, so I don’t think that bush’s problem is due to the mulch. The run litter is a mix of chicken poop of course, but then lots of aged ramial chips from a pile the tree guys left us, that’s generally a mix of pine, oak and maple; purchased bagged wood chips which I think is pine; collected fall leaves and pine needles, some chopped hemp, and some rice hulls.
(The one blueberry not doing well is near a concrete foundation. It has a chlorophyll problem (chlorosis) is which I think is possibly due to encountering concrete mud or something making the soil too basic. It has a companion bush that has thrived next to it, thus the theory it grew into a pocket of something too basic. The leaves got a little better when I gave it a rhododendron soil acidifier treatment late last summer.)
Last January in the Big Run
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