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["Jim Fruth" <jfruth@tds.net>]

   I mow my Autumn Bliss every Fall and I use a long handled pruning shears 
to accomplish the task.  We mow them right down to the ground.  If we leave 
any above ground buds, these produce low-growing summer berries - mowing 
with a lawn mower also leaves above ground buds.  All rows have drip 
irrigation permanently in place and we add 6" of pine needles every three 
years to replenish the mulch.  The only perennial weed we have a problem 
with is Quack Grass which we pull by hand as it approaches the berry patch 
from outside my property.

Jim Fruth
Brambleberry Farm
Pequot Lakes, MN  56472
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