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[mIEKAL aND <dtv@mwt.net>]

On Tuesday, October 21, 2003, at 10:17 AM, Rick Valley wrote:

> Way back when I bought a house in SE Portland, there were 2 blueberry 
> bushes
> on the E side of the house, (bluecrop?) with lawn grass tangled up 
> into them
> clear to the crown.
> 1- I gave them a pruning
> 2- I cut the grass out- using a Japanese sickle- a kama- (I'd read 
> that the
> blues dislike root disturbance)
> 3- I mulched with pine and Cedrus deodara needles (I read they like 
> acid)
> (the old lady whose driveway I'd sweep for the Cedrus needles would 
> give me
> cake and pie)
> 4- I planted Houttynia cordata, Gaultheria miqueliana and G. procumbens
> under the blues (you really ought to try G. miqueliana berries on a
> chocolate cake!)

Im interplanting bearberry & lingonberry between blueberries....

> 5- I'd pee on the planting during the winter rains (good cover from the
> neighbors)


I don't know about grass on the west coast but here in the midwest 
peeing on grass makes it grow faster, taller & greener.

mIEKAL