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  • From: sunnfarm AT netscape.net
  • To: market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Cc: market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: Re: No-till method research?
  • Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:20:53 -0500


When I farmed erosive silt loam hill ground I tried no till vegetables but
found it very hard to do without herbicides, you can't cultivate, and flamers
ignite the mulch, and weedeaters often eat the wrong "weed" and the flying
debris damages tender foliage encouraging bacterial soft rot,perennial weeds
like thissel nutsedge and bindweed get a strong foothold in notill beds,
notill mulched soils are slow to warmup and dry out,its too cold for seed to
germinate, diseases like Fusarium Pythium and Rhizoctonia are more
common,slugs and cutworms are the major insect problem, besides you miss the
sweet smell of fresh plowed ground...
Sunny Meadow Farm
Bridgeton, NJ.
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