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  • From: "Bill Shoemaker" <wshoemak AT inil.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] No more red mulch
  • Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 08:00:50 -0500


I suspect it won't work as well, but I don't know anyone who's tried it.

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


>I've been thinking about using red plastic on tomatoes this year but OVER a
>thick layer of straw which should smother the weeds. Anyone have any
>thoughts??
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Roger Weeks" <rjweeks70 AT comcast.net>
>To: <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 10:23 AM
>Subject: [Market-farming] No more red mulch
>
>
>> 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.
>>
>
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