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  • From: "Bill Shoemaker" <wshoemak AT inil.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT franklin.metalab.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Windbreaks
  • Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 11:33:55 -0600

Vegetable growers in this region often plant grain rye in the Fall and till out sections in the Spring, leaving 5' strips of rye every 25-30' to serve as windbreaks. This is most prevalent in sandy soils as the blowing sand in the Spring can blast young vegetable plants. Also, the strips often create a slightly warmer environment around the young plants.
 
Bill Shoemaker
Sr Research Specialist, Food Crops
Univ of Illinois - St Charles Hort Research Center
 
>Thinking ahead to next year, I just gotta ask:Does anyone plant/have windbreaks along their >veggie's?  Thanks for any input. 


  • Windbreaks, Tom Anslow, 10/31/2002
    • <Possible follow-up(s)>
    • Re: Windbreaks, Bill Shoemaker, 10/31/2002
    • Re: Windbreaks, Willie McKemie, 10/31/2002

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