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  • From: "Bill Shoemaker" <wshoemak AT inil.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Plastic Mulch
  • Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 08:58:08 -0500

Seeding cucurbits into plastic mulch can run into problems, but not directly
due to the mulch. If you have problems with mice or other rodents feeding on
seeds, plastic mulch gives them cover and you give them food in the form of
your seeds. So most of the growers around here use transplants. Nice thing
about cukes and S squash, it only takes about 20 days to make a transplant.

Bill Shoemaker
Sr Research Specialist, Food Crops
Univ of Illinois - St Charles Hort Research Center

-----Original Message-----
From: Allan Balliett <igg AT igg.com>
To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Date: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 8:03 AM
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Plastic Mulch


>Bill, et al -
>
>I forgot to ask: are you folks SEEDING squash and cucumbers into your
>plastic mulch or is it strictly transplants?
>
>Thanks
>
>-Allan Balliett
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