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  • From: Mayapple Farm and Gardens <mayapplefarm AT yahoo.com>
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  • Subject: [Market-farming] Re: Market-farming Mulch on a big scale - Willie
  • Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 18:33:28 -0700 (PDT)

Willie,

As a farmer who never seems to have enough organic
matter in my soil, I literally cringed when you
mentioned burning off your mulch. Are you dry enough
where this won't decompose through the winter? Do you
plow under your residues? If so, can't you turn under
the mulch as well?

Kevin


Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 12:47:58 -0500
From: Willie McKemie <mf AT austinfarm.org>
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Mulch on a big scale
To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
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> I was wondering if anyone could help me with this
question:
> I was wondering if any of you who market flowers and
vegetables on a
bigger scale mulch the fields to prevent weeds and
what material do you
use?

Last Fall, I cut and baled about 20 acres; that gave
me 600-800 square
bales. This Spring, I used it for mulch; it only
mulched about 1 acre.
Lotta work. Lotta cost. Little benefit. I'm a
glutton for
punishment, I'll try it again this/next year if I can
find time. It
does make nice mulch for figs. I used it also on
peppers, which grow
6-8 months here. I think tomatoes have too short a
season to make it
attractive. I'm not sure what I will do with it after
the peppers get
frosted. Maybe try to keep it clean over winter and
put some
transplanted crop in it in the Spring. Maybe try to
burn it.

Mulches are not very effective on many of our problem
weeds: bermuda
grass, johnson grass, morning glory.

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Krystyna L. Prochocki
Kevin L. Strohmeier
May Apple Farm and Gardens
4020 N. Grandview Church Rd.
Big Spring, KY 40175
270/828-4953
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