Use your mower to shred up some leaves (leaves are GOLD) then bag or rake them and put a 6" layer over the top of the crowns. By spring they will have been compressed down and the new bines will emerge through it. I would then add aged compost around the emerging bines.
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All I ask is three beers apiece for each of my co-workers...I think a man workin outdoors, feels more like a man if he can have a bottle of suds.
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