To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Spring Cleanup
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 07:34:33 -0700 (PDT)
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.)