[Market-farming] Pre-emergents

Marty Kraft martyk at allspecies.org
Fri Feb 1 19:45:26 EST 2008


Thanks. I was thinking of covering the corn with lots of straw and  
letting it rot.

Marty
On Feb 1, 2008, at 4:12 PM, tonitime at juno.com wrote:

>  Hi Marty,
>    depending on where you live, i fear that would merely attract every
> corn-loving bird and critters from acres around to feast on your  
> rows of
> young transplants. As to discouraging weed germination, the corn  
> gluten i
> use must be moistened after applying, or it won't do the trick.  I  
> doubt
> the right level of coverage could happen with chunks of corn atop the
> soil.
>
> Toni
>
>> If I used cracked corn on some of my beds to attract worms would that
>>
>> discourage seeds from germinating?
>>
>> Marty
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