Planting Blueberries

This weekend, we planted more blueberry bushes. We have been adding to our blueberry bushes for several years.  These particular bushes came from a box they were selling at Sam's Club and the quality ranged from poor to excellent.

Here is a picture of the FindingOurWays mixing compost and peat moss which will then be mixed with our dirt where we plant the blueberries.

Mr. LivingOurWay and a FindingOurWay planting a blueberry bush.

MrLivingOurWay read somewhere that picking the blooms off of the blueberry bushes for the first few years makes the root system strong so this is what we practice.  Because of this (and our chickens) we are not getting a lot of blueberries yet.

How do you plant and take care of your blueberries? Any tips to keep the chickens out of them?