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["Robert Walton" <waltonrp AT gmail.com>]

> I've one leftover raised bed that isn't earmarked. It's a small one but
> buckwheat could be my 2008 experiment.

It only takes 8 weeks or so, a good crop for experimenting.


>  But letting the weeds grow
> waist high did wonders. Now we purposely do not mow near the blues until we
> begin picking and only then a walking path. I pick blueberries in late June
> and early July wearing sandals w/ socks, jeans, a tank top w/ a flannel
> shirt buttoned at the waist to avoid scratchy weeds and wasps or hornets.
>
Hmmm. That's interesting. Is it that the tall weeds are hiding the
blueberry bushes?

Rob - Va