May 11 2010
Little Blueberry Giant And How It Benefits Your Health
Are you someone who loves fresh blueberries? If you buy yours from the grocery store for daily use, then you probably know how expensive they can be to purchase. Again, blueberries for that blueberry pie or cheesecake can wrack up the dollars on your grocery bill. If you are a blueberry lover and you put blueberries on your cereal every morning, then you should really check out the Little Giant Blueberry Plant.
There is now a method for you to grow them in your own backyard and harvest delicious little giant blueberries for yourself and your family. The Little Giant Blueberries Plant allows for this to happen. The Little Giant blueberry plant grows about 4 to 5 feet in the air over a period of about 90 days. The actual berries produced are dark blue in color and small in size but they taste very juicy and full of blueberry flavor. One Little Giant Blueberry Plant alone can give you so many blueberries as to fill the entire bush twofold! There will such an abundance of berries that the fruit will actually weigh the bush down within in a week. This is considerably more blueberries over a weeks time than other varieties of blueberries produce during an entire season.
Little Giant Blueberries were first made by A.D. Draper of the USDA-ARS at the USDA’s Beltsville, Maryland (USA) fruit processing and science facility in 1967. The strain was taken from crossing the sweet Northern Highbush blueberry plant and the abundant Rabbiteye blueberry plant. Draper intended this specific type of plant to be used exclusively for breeding type plants. After getting amazing results from this strain, he recognized that the plant itself could be made into a staple blueberry for fruit production.
As a rule, the blueberry plant grows very quickly and adapts well to many soil types. Unfortunately, it is not a plant that grows well in shade or sun, so a direct source of sunlight would be needed to prove effective growth of the actual berries. True to Draper’s findings, the Little Giant Blueberry Plant continues to provide thousands of berries every day for weeks of the season. Since blueberries themselves contain needed antioxidants for the body, growing blueberries in the yard would provide you with a very rich antioxidant source to keep you and your loved ones healthy and happy.