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  • From: Roger Weeks <rjweeks70 AT comcast.net>
  • To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [Market-farming] No more red mulch
  • Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 09:23:46 -0700

Well folks, I tried red plastic mulch this year, and it has been an unqualified failure.

I tried it with strawberries, bare root planted in January, and with tomatoes I set out the first of May.

The plants are healthy enough, that's not the problem. Here is the problem: red plastic mulch does NOTHING to prevent weed growth underneath the plastic. I have huge healthy weeds growing under there, whereas in the field where I can cultivate, I have little or no weeds at all.

My conclusion is that the red plastic, while it may have an effect on the plants, is worthless as a mulch. I just ripped it all off my tomatoes.

Roger Weeks




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