Clearing pine forest land to plant blueberries, while expensive, is recommended as the best means of assuring the appropriate soil type for blueberry plantings. Various taxa of blueberry are adapted to the humid, temperate climate of the eastern US, with lowbush being adapted to the most northern areas, south to New England, Highbush from New England and Michigan to northern South Carolina, and Rabbiteye from North Carolina to Florida. Hedge height should be maintained at 6-7 ft for mechanical harvest. Lowbush blueberries are typically not planted, but native populations of variable density are managed. E. Backyard considerations .
Blueberries are relatively low maintenance in the home garden.
If a few main points are followed, the average gardener should have no trouble producing quarts of blueberries from a few plants. Blueberries bloom fairly early, and often experience frost damage. Keep a few old bedspreads handy to cover bushes in bloom on frost nights. Blueberries need acidic soils, and plenty of mulch and organic matter. Prune out one old, tall, unproductive cane each year when bushes mature, and leave one or two young canes to grow in its place.