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[Lisa Almarode <lisaalmarode@yahoo.com>]

A natural weed treatment is spraying with vinegar.
10% if you can find it (I never have), but 5% works
(at least on some weeds).  The side-effect of 
increasing acidity should help the blueberries too...

Lisa in Ashland Oregon

> 2)  I planted blueberries along side some blue-mat
> juniper.  This is 
> how I've seen them grow on hilltops in the wild. 
> But my blueberries 
> are overrun with grass.  On the side away from the
> juniper (between the 
> blueberries and the lawn) I have extended my mulch,
> in the hopes of 
> giving the blueberry plants more space, and less
> competition.  But 
> there is vigorous (and tall) grass between the
> juniper and the berry 
> bushes, where it is hard to remove.  There's not
> enough room to lay 
> down newspaper (as I did on the other side) and the
> rabbit fence is in 
> the way.  Basically, the grass grows along the
> chicken-wire fence, with 
> blueberries to one side and juniper to the other. 
> Every year I 
> hand-pull as much of this grass as I can, but every
> year it grows tall 
> enough to shade my half-high bushes.  Any
> suggestions?   (I can e-mail 
> a photo if anyone is interested.)


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