Backyard Berry Plants, specializing in Organically grown blueberry, blackberry, and red raspberry plants

As you well know I planted a young blueberry bush from Wholefoods in my backyard, some of the leaves are turning a weary red, some leaves worse than others and some just beginning to around the edges, yes I am quite distraught, what do I do?!

I went on the web to seek out some answers and came across this fantastic site called Backyard Berry Plants, the pros of organic backyard berry bushes!  Just what I need! This is what I found in regards to the redness on my blueberry leaves,

Q: Why are my blueberries leaves turning red?

A: They do this for different reasons.  They turn red in the fall of course (and orange/yellow), and that is expected.  It if is spring or summer and this is happening, your pH could be too high and /or they are not getting enough nitrogen.  I usually put a couple full shovels of peat moss around each plant in the spring, along with its annual spring fertilizer treatment, and I have never had this problem in my production bushes.  I am more likely to see it in potted nursery plants, as pH and nitrogen can rapidly change given increased watering (leaching nitrogen and raising pH) and temperatures (increased plant growth with not enough nitrogen).

From what I gather, and of course I can't be sure, I may be watering my blueberry bush too much.  So I must take action!  Less watering {which I have been doing daily, daily too much apparently} and more nitrogen.  I have been dressing the blueberry bush every now and again with coffee ground {for nitrogen purposes} but I did not take into consideration that watering sucks the nitrogen out of the soil thus making it unusable for the plant.

Stay tuned for results!

Read the results, Results: Watering my blueberry bush less when it was beginning to turn red