Alanna's Blog

I have a bed of thornless blackberries and when I planted them I mulched it like crazy. I did this every year for awhile and it kept the weeds down for the first 2 years. Now I've got tons of weeds, maybe because I got too busy to mulch it last fall. I use leaves and grass clippings from friends and neighbors. Anyway, I tried spot spraying the weeds and ended up killing some plants. Does anyone have any ideas? I thought about laying down plastic and putting bark on top, but don't the plants need to send up runners? If not, the plastic would work for me.

Alanna