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Craig Sailor is the Arts & Entertainment editor at The News Tribune. Last year he planted his first vegetable garden. Focusing on unusual varieties, “Freak of Nature” returns for 2008 with a new crop of uncommon vegetables and flowers. This year he’ll try yin yang beans, giant pumpkins, blue poppies and mutant sunflowers. He gardens at his North End Tacoma home and sneaks seeds in to his mother’s garden at Willapa Bay when she’s not looking. E-mail him at craig.sailor@thenewstribune.com.

Sue Kidd is the Lifestyle Editor at The News Tribune and the ringleader for the Home&Garden section. She is a decent vegetable gardener, but occasionally a tragic mess at growing other stuff. She’ll blog about gardening events, gadgets, her weird obsession with guerrilla gardening and all her assorted garden disasters. E-mail her with thoughts/rants/questions/bizarre observations. sue.kidd@thenewstribune.com.

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A Gardening Blog
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Posted by Craig Sailor @ 12:29:50 pm

I was staking up posts and stringing rope the other day over my mom's blueberry patch. We'll put some netting over the whole thing before the berries ripen. If we don't, the birds will have a feast and we'll be left with empty pie tins.

Here's the dilemma readers. Some of mom's plants aren't producing so well anymore. I know some people cut their blueberries down to the ground to rejuvenate them. What I'd like to know from you folks is: have you tried this? Does it work? When should we do it? Here's a photo of one of her older bushes.