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  • From: nottke <nottke1@earthlink.net>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] grass in blueberries
  • Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 18:28:21 -0400

Every couple years I put a ring of pine shavings/sawdust (from a cabinet
maker who works primarily in pine) around each blueberry bush. About 2-3
inches thick and from up-against-the-canes out about 18 inches. This seems
to suppress most grasses, maintain moisture in late summer, and feed the
bushes with whatever they like. I do not know if it is acidic. Takes a
couple years to decompose. Since I started doing this 8 years ago, the
bushes require severe pruning twice a year to keep them under 7 1/2 feet in
height, and we get bumper crops of large berries. The bushes are located
in full sun, flat ground on top of a broad clay ridge, no irrigation, 15
miles west of Winston-Salem, NC.
Our local Extension Agent suggested the pine sawdust regimen.






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