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- From: "wiediger" <wiediger AT msn.com>
- To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Subject: salt build-up in hoophouses
- Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 09:57:30 -0600
We've been growing in hoophouses for 7 years. We've
seen salt build up after 4. Took the plastic off the first house that
exhibited salt build-up and left it off for about 8 months. In addition to
rain, we also ran overhead sprinklers. Salt build-up exhibited itself
again in about 4 months. We can minimize the effect by incorporating a
good quantity of compost.
As for tomatoes after tomatoes after tomatoes...there are
some old time tomato growers who plant them year after year in the same field
and feed the tomatoes with compost made from the vines from the old
tomatoes. They tell me their plants get better every year!
We found a possible solution to tomato hornworm in
hoophouses is to close them up just before dusk. The years we do this we
have minimal hornworm damage. When we leave them open, we see a
lot.
I agree with Bob, a heated hoophouse is too valuable to
grow winter vegetables. You have to analyze cost and profit per square
foot.
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salt build-up in hoophouses,
wiediger, 12/07/2001
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: salt build-up in hoophouses, Bill Shoemaker, 12/07/2001
- Re: salt build-up in hoophouses, wiediger, 12/07/2001
- Re: salt build-up in hoophouses, Elaine Granata, 12/07/2001
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