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  • From: Karen Sutherland and Roots Farm <rootsfarm AT marpin.dm>
  • To: sunnfarm AT bellatlantic.net, Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
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  • Subject: [Market-farming] Protecting against disease: tomato stakes, plant pots & trays, etc.
  • Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 09:35:02 -0400

Greetings all,

Does anyone know if bacterial disease will live on synthetic, non-biodegradable twines? If disease can live on same, can one sterillize using a bleach solution? Are such bleach solutions usually admissible under organic certification protocols? What is least amount still effective (both for bacterial disease and for the various viruses, fungi, etc. (like damping off) that can affect seedlings and plants?

Thanks!

Karen (writing from an unseasonable chilly zone 5 and longing for warm (now unseasonably, but blessedly, wet) zone 10)

*Karen Sutherland **
**Roots Farm**
Organic Produce : Fruits, Roots, Vegetables & Herbs*
Cockrane, Dominica
767-449-3038
rootsfarm AT marpin.dm <mailto:rootsfarm AT marpin.dm>





robert schuler wrote:

An acre of tomatoes on 6ft rows Florida weave eats up 2000 stakes, I don't
think HD would be too happy with the request. Wood stakes come 1400 to a
pallet
all neatly bundled and ready to go at around 40 cents each. The nice thing
about rebar is bacterial disease will not live on metal and they don't break
in
two other than that rebar can be quite unpleasant to handle and store.
Sunny Meadow Farm
Bridgeton, NJ.

Tradingpost wrote:


Or better yet,
You can go to Home Despot and let them cut it for you...first two cuts are
free,after that 25 cents a cut. I'm sure other home centers also offer free
cuts. No need to buy torches,or shears or new blades for that cutting. Let
them waste their own blades. And save your equipment...also easier to
transport........


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