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  • From: lucy Owsley <boulderbelt AT voyager.net>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Keeping Agribon in Place
  • Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:47:42 -0400

agribond and agripro both come in 30 and 50 weights that are 83" wide. I just put agripro 30 on a bed of lettuce seedlings I put out this morning. the cover is 2 years old and in basically good shape.

I keep it in place with heavy (4+ pound) rocks and bricks. Does a good job until the gusts get above 45mph than things come off but i have yet to find anything that keeps covers on in very high winds that also allow easy access to the plants
On Apr 16, 2008, at 8:17 AM, <clearviewfarm AT bluefrog.com> wrote:

I wish that heavy row cover, like Typar, was made in narrower rolls, like 6' or 83", as the lighter stuff is.  I like using that to cover rows of eggplant and other flea beetle sensitive crops.  We haven't had a great deal of wind problems with that, as long as we use sufficient pins/stones to hold it down.  I suspect the wider sheets would be more sail-like.  Correct?

Kurt Forman
Clearview Farm
Palmyra, NY 14522

--- hgkansas AT sbcglobal.net wrote:

From: Home Grown Kansas! <hgkansas AT sbcglobal.net>
To: farmersue AT hughes.net, Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Keeping Agribon in Place
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 09:24:25 -0700 (PDT)

It doesn't work well in Kansas.  The wind blows from the north one day at 30 mph with gusts and blows from the North the next day with the same force.  We make "U" shape pins made from #10 wire to pin down our 15' Remay.  The #10 wire is purchased from a wholesale chain link fence supplier - it is the bottom reinforcement wire of the fence.  The sides of the Remay has to be folded over it's self - so that there is a double thickness, with a pin placed about every 4'.  1/2" Re-bar also works well. 
 
Elzie
Wichtia, KS 

Sue Wells <farmersue AT hughes.net> wrote:
 
“”I learned this Elliot Coleman's book...To put stakes at each end of the row and tie the agribon to it, stretched over the hoops””
Does this work when it is extremely windy? We have a lot of wind here.
Thank you all for all your help.
Sue
Vermont
 
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Lucy Goodman
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