Best Way To Cover Blueberry Bushes. Protecting blueberries over winter by covering the plants and mulching around them can be beneficial. You wont get any blueberries out of your bushes if you have birds coming in an eating them.
Nets May Not Be Enough. When to Apply Netting around Blueberry Bushes. If you do it when the bush is in bloom youre in danger of damaging them and with no flowers you get no fruit.
The birds love blueberries and got smart as time went on.
Unroll or if youre recycling last years netting untangle your netting so it will roll out relatively easily. In my experience netting gets tangled very easily so grab a helper for this step. Ill show you how I protect my 14 blueberry bushes and a tip on. Carefully drape the netting over the entire bush or patch taking care to tuck the edges of the fabric around all.
