Service berries don't get enough love. People come in trying to buy blueberries. I like blueberries, but lets be real. Your soil PH is not 4.5-5.5 and you're probably not gonna throw down sulfur every year to keep that ph down. Just buy the service berry, but alas they keep asking for the blueberry.
Jul 4, 2025 00:43And a service berry bush gets big. Much more than blueberry. My soil is clay. No chance to overcome it.
I foolishly planted a couple of blueberry bushes when I moved to central Ohio. I kept up with the soil for maybe two years, tops.
The food coop in my neighborhood is selling mulberries for $7/pint. There’s a mulberry tree every two blocks around here
This is timely. I’m a new gardener and I saw people growing raspberries and blueberries in containers, so was thinking, “Hmm, maybe I should …”
I better stick to the current chaos living on my deck, but now that I know regent serviceberries can be grown in containers and are delicious, next year!
Or chokeberries! They don't taste as good off the bush, but as a landscape shrub 😙🤌🏻. Gorgeous spring flowers, scarlet red fall foliage...and chokeberry jam is so good.
