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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 12:31:28 -0500
Bob, One more thing.
Have you tried Creole tomatoes?
They were developed for your conditions. I grow another tomato that is
very disease resistant. Ever hear of Campbell's 1943? I grow them
both. They are beautiful and tasty.
--
Charlie, Gardening in
Saint Charles County, Missouri Zone 5/6
---- Robert Monie
<bobm20001@yahoo.com> wrote:
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>TradingPostPaul
<tradingpost@riseup.net> wrote:
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>There's a better way
to control weeds. Anyone?
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>paul tradingpost@lobo.net
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>Hi Paul,
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>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.
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>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).
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>Bob Monie
>New
Orleans/River Ridge, LA
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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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