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  • From: "Wiediger, Alison" <alison.wiediger AT hart.kyschools.us>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] eco-one oxo-degradable mulch
  • Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 08:13:42 -0600

We used the mater-bi product last year and were VERY impressed. It
broke down in 60-90 days here, about perfect for most of our crops.
Allowed us to double crop without having to worry about removing plastic
- just till it in with the crop residue. Ditto on getting cover crops
in in the fall - something that for us is very hard to do with regular
plastic because of the heavy labor requirement to get it out of the
field. AND, no matter how careful we are, some always remains where it
tears, roots grow around it, etc. With the bio-degradable, none of that
happened. It's expensive, but not when you consider the labor and the
contamination of leftover plastic in the field. With the few crops that
stand more than 90-100 days (peppers and some flowers), we'll mulch with
straw over the plastic to slow down the breakdown.

Alison Wiediger, Au Naturel Farm

-----Original Message-----
From: market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Bill
Shoemaker
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 8:07 AM
To: Market Farming
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] eco-one oxo-degradable mulch

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.
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> Leigh
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