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  • From: Road's End Farm <organic87 AT frontiernet.net>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] eco-one oxo-degradable mulch
  • Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2008 21:04:24 -0500


On Jan 30, 2008, at 9:07 AM, Bill Shoemaker wrote:

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

Did you do, or have you seen, any tests on whether and/or how fast it finishes breaking down entirely in the soil?

It could easily have broken down to the point at which you couldn't see any, but still be in the soil in a form that might (or might not) cause micro-organisms trouble. Before using any, I'd like to know whether that's likely to be happening.

-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale


  • Re: [Market-farming] eco-one oxo-degradable mulch, Road's End Farm, 02/02/2008

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