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  • From: "Bill Shoemaker" <wshoemak AT inil.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Tomato problem
  • Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 07:31:57 -0500

That's interesting specualation, but after using it for more than twenty years, I can't imagine what evidence there is for this. I've never seen disease associated with plastic mulch.

Bill Shoemaker, Sr Research Specialist, Food Crops
University of Illinois - St Charles Horticulture Research Center
www.nres.uiuc.edu/faculty/directory/shoemaker_wh.html


Plastic mulch can cut off air to the topsoil and prevent normal evaporation
through the hay, and create conditions for disease organisms.





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