It refers to the agricultural land they're on. Blueberries need very acidic soil, so acidic most plants can't handle it. So if you've got a very naturally acidic property and can't cultivate anything else, you do blueberries.
Pine barrens are similar - dry, shitty, sandy soil that only the pine trees do well in.
Blueberries need very acidic soil, so acidic most plants can't handle it.
Oooh, this might be why every time we buy a blueberry bush, it dies immediately. Our water is mildly alkaline and we were just putting them in our usual potting soil.
I'm picturing an intelligent alien species transporting humans to another planet with an inhospitable atmosphere and wondering, "Why did they keep dying?"
I have around 10 blueberry bushes of different varieties in my yard. Some in beds I built some just in the soil, the ones in beds do better because I can adjust the soil easier. They all get sulfur at the beginning and end of each growing season and then ‘acid fertilizer’ a couple times throughout the year. The stuff with hydrangeas on the package works well.
Oh, so that's why blueberries flourish in the far north despite the short growing season. From archaeology I know that the soil there is so acidic that it has destroyed most remains of ancient cultures.
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u/C-57D 2d ago
it's called a barren?