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It's time for my plants to enter dormancy, but my new apricot is still 
looking like August.  Is this normal for apricots?

Cleaned up the blueberry patch this weekend - wow was it overrun with 
grass.  I've been pulling everything I could see in the spring and 
fall, and putting about 4 inches of shredded oak leaves on it each 
fall, but that doesn't seem to inhibit the grass at all.  This fall I'm 
trying newspaper - at least three sheets deep, and then I'll put mulch 
in top of that, either shredded leaves, or peat moss, or a combination 
of them.  (I have most of a bale of peat moss left over from when I 
first planted them, and maybe it's time to use it up.)  I would have 
thought that the soil would be acid enough to inhibit grass by now, but 
I guess not.   Has anyone had much luck keeping the grass down?

Best,
Ginda
gentle fall drizzle here in eastern Mass., zone 6