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["Big Swede" <jfrisk@pionet.net>]

My wife gets upset with me but I bring home bags of leaves from town and
store them in the bags until spring.  Then I use them to mulch my tomatoes
so I don't have to weed them more than once.  Also it helps with the
persistent late summer droughts we have had the last several summers.
Picking the last of the Golden Russets, Ashmead Kernals, Paragons, and
Melrose apples.  They have really been good once we got over the early
September drop from the drought.  Judson L. Frisk  zone 5 SW Iowa
----- Original Message -----
From: <list@ginda.us>
To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 5:57 PM
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Mulching Blueberries with Newspaper


>
> On Thursday, October 23, 2003, at 02:41  PM, Gregory Miller wrote:
>
> > Ginda:
> >
> > I have used the newspaper plus mulch method, and it works great.
> >
> > HOWEVER,
> >
> > I would not do it in the fall as it creates prime lodging conditions
> > for various rodents.  I had that problem using clumps of strawbales
> > (that held together after getting wet) and had the problem of the
> > rodent tunnels around some blackberries.  I think it would be even
> > worse with newspaper.  I would suggest the spring, just as the grass
> > is starting to sprout.  It is easy to place that time of year, the
> > mulch you put on will stay wet, and there is less time for the rodents
> > to get established before summer comes.
> >
>
> Thanks.  Not sure what to do, as fall is when I have mulch - aka leaves
> that need to be removed from the lawn.  It just seems so inefficient to
> haul them away in the fall and buy lots of mulch in the spring. . .
>
> Ginda
>
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