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["S & E Hills" <ehills7408@wowway.com>]

I’ve got wintergreen and cranberry (both also fruit bearing) and this year have added that ground-cover trailing raspberry a couple of the catalogs are offering. 

 

If you’re specifically wanting flowers, I’m fighting daylilies from my blueberry bed and I also have a clematis that predates the blueberries which while its growth is not stellar, it is surviving and flowers each year for me. 

 

Scott Hills

Zone 6b Michigan

 

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From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Melissa Kacalanos
Sent: Sunday, May 10, 2009 9:21 AM
To: North American Fruit Explorers
Subject: [NAFEX] blueberrry cover crop?

 

We've got our blueberry bed all prepared with lots of peat, and will be putting in our blueberry plants soon. (I know, we should have prepared the bed a year in advance, then tested pH, but we're gambling that we got it right, so wish us luck.)

We'll soon have this vast expanse of acid soil, with a few little baby blueberry plants in it, and a whole lot of mulch, taking up a big area in the front yard. Is there anything we can do to make this look less stark until the blueberries grow to fill the space? Are there acid-loving cover crops? Flowers? The best I could think of was some sort of sprawling cucurbit or maybe trailing nasturtiums rambling in from the side where the soil is still only slightly acidic, but I'm open to other ideas.

Melissa