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  • From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lflj@intrex.net>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [permaculture] Thoughts on blueberry growing & associated weed control
  • Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 00:05:45 -0500


(anyone interested, append more info to this post in your followups)


Fail safe formula

Get the right equipment:
See the tractor & implements in these pix
http://venaurafarm.blogspot.com/

this size is required to make a raised bed worth using

get a Yeomans plow, 3 bottom plow, rotavator, tillage tool and hiller bedder
like the ones in the pix and use them on your land now - bottom plow and let
the soil freeze out then when dry use the other implements and make your
raised beds

tall wide raised beds with furrows/ditches between will give you well
aerated, well drained beds for
your blueberries - simulated peat bog conditions: soft, friable dirt, well
drained, easy to keep low pH,
use sulphur as an amendment along with any manures or composts or compost tea
(which would probably work wonders with
blueberries) - think about growing azaleas, rhododendron or kalmia latifolia
- blues like the same growing conditions -
grassy weeds like high pH, ericaceae or calciphobes like low pH

if possible bring in hundreds of tons of (not limestone) quarry rock powder,
siltation pond fines,
and spread it over land before plowing - the blues will like the extra
drainage, minerals and friability the rock dust
will provide when mixed with your native soil - this is free from nearly all
quarries but you'll have to bring in your
own mule train and towsacks to haul it to your farm or just hire a trucker
with tandem or triaxle dump

get many round bales and a round bale unroller and before planting unroll a
layer of hay a foot or two thick
on top of all your raised beds

good production, no weeds, minimum irrigation, high quality fruit, regular
fertilization from the decomposing
hay mulch
if you can get it buy or have baled scotch broom roundbales, the best hay
mulch I have ever seen, not often used as
forage, is considered a weed; bale it before it matures as that makes better
mulch, lighter and softer




  • [permaculture] Thoughts on blueberry growing & associated weed control, Lawrence F. London, Jr., 12/21/2007

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