Well hi it's John here we're down on the allotment and I'm just doing a video about blueberries and people who've seen any other of my videos forget to know me now and I'm always up for a bargain it's just something doing my bogements you know I don't buy the highest quality I always get the cheapest and most of these blueberries have come from townland and this is how they sell them in a box like this and they've got delicious blueberries on the on the front and it gives grief instructions on how to plant them and one thing it doesn't actually say about the unique plant blueberries in ericaceous soil which is a very acid type of soil well I bought quite a lot of ericaceous soil and I've put them in in the ericaceous and found that one problem with ericaceous soil is that it's got a lot of river rushes growing in it you know because they've obviously got got it from a floodmado or river side anyway this blueberry here has retained some of its leaves we're in the middle of December at the moment so on the box it tells me I should cut these right down but I'm not going to be cutting my blueberries down because they've only just got up cut them down they might never get up again now this is obviously slightly different varieties it's got these red leaves and this is one that I bought from townland this year in the in the spring and these have been a well this one here is in his fiberglass container which I got from the dump and so all the ericaceous stays in it because although this land is quite wet it's quite limey as well because we get all the lime coming through from the hills around because it's lots of natural springs in the land so that contains the acid soil in there and they're completely in there these ones here are some that I planted two or three years ago and I did a different way I put you know like we knew planted tomatoes in a ring I planted these in a ring and filled up the ericaceous soil I mean they're still alive that was still alive I don't know whether I did have another one that's in that and then this one is just in the pot from the ground and I've got two in there and this one we've just brought up and it's got some lovely green shoots so I'm hoping they'll survive until spring that's the the blueberry plants so thanks very much for watching and in time perhaps I'll tag another video on the end of this and show you how they're getting on bye bye