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  • From: "Elaine Granata" <ecgranat AT ouray.cudenver.edu>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: salt build-up in hoophouses
  • Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 10:54:19 -0700

I'm new at this. What's OM stand for?
 
Elaine Granata
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 9:23 AM
Subject: [market-farming] Re: salt build-up in hoophouses


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. 
I'm curious about your thoughts on how the compost might have minimized the salt effect. O.M. maybe?
 
Bill Shoemaker
Sr Research Specialist, Food Crops
Univ of Illinois - St Charles Hort Research Center
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