How to Plant a Blueberry Bush for Cross-Pollination

Blueberry bushes produce sweet, round berries but only when they have been cross-pollinated. One blueberry bush does produce both male and female flowers, but the plant is not capable of self-pollinating. In order to ensure that you have properly fertilized flowers that turn into berries, take pains to plant your bushes so that the winds and the insects can properly pollinate all of them.

Shovel
Peat moss

Instructions

- 1
  Dig a hole as deep as the height of the blueberry bush's root ball and twice as wide with a shovel.
- 2
  Mix peat moss into the loose dirt until the mixture is half peat moss and half soil.
- 3
  Place the blueberry bush's root ball into the hole.
- 4
  Refill the hole with the mixture of peat moss and soil. The bush should sit in the soil with the same amount above the ground as above the root ball.
- 5
  Plant another blueberry bush using the same method as stated above and place it 5 feet away. This distance allows the blueberry bushes to pollinate each other.

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