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  • From: "Bill Shoemaker" <wshoemak AT inil.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] eco-one oxo-degradable mulch
  • Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 08:07:28 -0600

I used a biodegradeable mulch in 06 and 07 that was provided to me by Ball Seeds Sustainable Hort division. I'm not sure it was the same product. But it was very nice material. It broke down toward the end of the season and by the following Spring you could hardly find any. I used the photodegradable years ago and this was not the same product. While photodegradeable would leave shreds behind where they were folded into the ground, the bio-degradeable product just melted away. I didn't find it blowing around the property either. Pretty impressive stuff.

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


----- Original Message ----- From: "Leigh Hauter" <bullrunfarm AT hughes.net>
To: <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 3:43 PM
Subject: [Market-farming] eco-one oxo-degradable mulch


Anyone heard or used this mulch? I was getting ready to put in my
mulch order for the year and saw this on Robert Marvel's webpage.
Not a whole lot of information on their webpage or on the webpage of
the company (eco-light) that puts it out. My thoughts on it are "if
it sounds to good to be true, it probably is." But then, maybe I'm
just cynical.
--

Leigh

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