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  • From: robert schuler <sunnfarm AT bellatlantic.net>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Plastic Mulch
  • Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 09:13:16 -0400

I don't use plastic anymore, just herbicides and cultivation. I am
beginning to hear from non farmers that our county's thousands of acres
of sticks and plastic looks ugly, could this idea backlash in the
future?.
Farmers growing summer squash and cucumbers etc. use white or reflective
plastic, soil heating is less of an issue in NJ than it is in northern
climes. Early peppers, tomatoes and eggplant are generally planted on
black plastic but foliage in summer shades the soil and heat stress is
not a problem. Having to mulch your mulch sounds silly...Bob.
Sunny Meadow Farm
Bridgeton, NJ.


Allan Balliett wrote:

> >I won't ever use plastic!!!
>
> attaboy!!
>
> How about it: anyone using plastic mulch to warm the soil in the
> spring and then mulching it out as the soil temp raises?
>
> The other way around: it looks like we're going to be living in
> 100degree weather this summer. WIll red plastic make the soil too hot
> for cucumbers and summer squash?
>
> Thanks -Allan
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