Biosynergies - Blueberries and Rhubarb

[Mal]

No, I've no idea what a biosynergy is either, I was just reading that other thread about bioregionalism and thought I'd get in on the act.

Here's my Rhubarb/Blueberry plan: My Rhubarb bed is next to my Blueberry bed. I don't take the rhubarb leaves home with me - too bulky - and I also take off the flower spikes (I was about to say I deflowered it, but that would give quite the wrong impression ).

So, when I pick a rhubarb stalk, I take off the leaf, cover the ground around the blueberries with it. The ground gets a mulch, the weeds get covered and the acid from the leaves should (over time) acidify the soil which the blueberries like.

What do you think? Will it work?

[grahamhobbs]

Now I like the sound of that.

We get woodchip from conifer prunings sometimes delivered to our allotments - I use them around the blueberries.

[Odsox]

I like the idea of going down the garden to deflower the rhubarb