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["Jim Fruth" <jimfruth@charter.net>]

Melissa wrote, "............I've also been hearing good things about laying 
the canes down and mulching them................."

   Years ago I mulched blackberries and found it handy to put a tarp over 
the weighted down canes and put the mulch atop the tarp.  The tarp trapped 
more ground heat than mulch alone and I didn't have to remove mulch that 
clung to the canes.
   If you opt for the tarp, just be sure that you remove it early enough in 
the Spring because, if left on too long, you could have a build-up of mildew 
and/or rotting canes.

Jim Fruth
Brambleberry Fruit Farm
4002 Davis Street
Pequot Lakes, MN  56472
1-218-831-7018 (My Cell)