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  • From: SaladG AT aol.com
  • To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] high-residue / zone tillage
  • Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:51:56 EDT

We use a lot of residue but we use newspapers and grind border hay and create the residue.  We use a water wheel transplanter and plant through the mess.  I had to weld mower sections on the wheel and also weighted it down with weights off the rear wheels from a lawn mower that had died.  Worked good but weeds came up in after about 3 mo, so I felt that it would work for really short season products like lettuce.  Probably will do some again this year.   I'm trying to get rid of the hort plastic, it can really be a pain but it really does work when you don't use any herbicides.
 
Phil
 


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