livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Healthy soil and sustainable growing
List archive
Re: [Livingontheland] Sustainable Production of Fresh-Market Tomatoes and Other Summer Vegetables With Organic Mulches
- From: Charlie <ckavin@charter.net>
- 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: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 12:23:11 -0500
Bob, When do you do what?
I am interested in when you sew your cover crop and which do you sew in what order.
I'll be doing he same in a couple of months.
--
Charlie, Gardening in Saint Charles County, Missouri Zone 5/6
---- Robert Monie <bobm20001@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
>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
Monie
>New Orleans/River Ridge, LA
>
>http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/livingontheland
>
>
-
[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,
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
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- 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
-
Re: [Livingontheland] Sustainable Production of Fresh-Market Tomatoes and Other Summer Vegetables With Organic Mulches,
TradingPostPaul, 08/15/2006
Archive powered by MHonArc 2.6.24.