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Re: [Livingontheland] Sustainable Production of Fresh-Market Tomatoes and Other Summer Vegetables With Organic Mulches
- From: Robert Monie <bobm20001@yahoo.com>
- To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Sustainable Production of Fresh-Market Tomatoes and Other Summer Vegetables With Organic Mulches
- Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 05:55:08 -0700 (PDT)
TradingPostPaul <tradingpost@riseup.net> wrote:
There's a better way to control weeds. Anyone?
paul tradingpost@lobo.net
*********** REPLY SEPARATOR ***********Hi Paul,First, I agree that the living mulch system described for growing tomatoes can work very well. Here in south Louisiana, hairy vetch often does not flourish, but I use well-inoculated short white clover (Dutch or Louisiana S2) instead.Vetch is not very alleopathic so it is not surprising that weeds flourish in a vetch environment. Buckwheat and annual rye are substantially alleopathic, so I use them both sequentially and then undersow the white clover beneath the tomato plants. Most "garden variety" weeds (I'm not talking about quackgrass or nutgrass) cannot withstand a heavy carpet of buckwheat or rye. The problems I have with tomatoes concern caterpillers, rust and viral disease--never weeds. With proper rotation of heavy buckwheat and rye cover crops, except for an occasional maverick that is easily plucked out, the weeds just don't appear, at least on my small field (I can't say what would happen on large acreage farms).Bob MonieNew Orleans/River Ridge, LAhttp://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/livingontheland
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[Livingontheland] Sustainable Production of Fresh-Market Tomatoes and Other Summer Vegetables With Organic Mulches,
TradingPostPaul, 08/15/2006
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Re: [Livingontheland] Sustainable Production of Fresh-Market Tomatoes and Other Summer Vegetables With Organic Mulches,
TradingPostPaul, 08/15/2006
- Re: [Livingontheland] Sustainable Production of Fresh-Market Tomatoes and Other Summer Vegetables With Organic Mulches, Norma Sutton, 08/15/2006
- Re: [Livingontheland] Sustainable Production of Fresh-Market Tomatoes and Other Summer Vegetables With Organic Mulches, Claudia & Linda, 08/15/2006
- Re: [Livingontheland] Sustainable Production of Fresh-Market Tomatoes and Other Summer Vegetables With Organic Mulches, Robert Monie, 08/16/2006
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- Re: [Livingontheland] Sustainable Production of Fresh-Market Tomatoes and Other Summer Vegetables With Organic Mulches, Charlie, 08/17/2006
- Re: [Livingontheland] Sustainable Production of Fresh-Market Tomatoes and Other Summer Vegetables With Organic Mulches, Charlie, 08/17/2006
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Re: [Livingontheland] Sustainable Production of Fresh-Market Tomatoes and Other Summer Vegetables With Organic Mulches,
TradingPostPaul, 08/15/2006
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