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- From: "Paul Wiediger" <wiediger AT windstream.net>
- To: "'Market Farming'" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Mulch Layer/ Buckeye
- Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:07:38 -0500
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[mailto:market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of bcluton AT aol.com Thanks Allison,
Do you know what type of flat bed layer it is? It is a Buckeye flat bed mulch layer. I’ll need to look up
the model number, but here is a link to their website: http://www.buctraco.com/MulchLayers.htm also what types of crops have you been putting on "plastic"
in your system. And do you put drip irrigation under the biotello and
pick it up at years end or do you not use drip? Just about everything, except heavy seeded items like
beans, peas, corn. Just about everything else gets transplanted into plastic.
Yes, we use drip. Bought a drip tape layer attachment w/ the mulch layer.
Sometimes we run multiple lines of drip in the bed. Either run the extra line
of drip by hand on the surface, or make 2 trips with the mulch layer, just not
laying drip with the first pass, and doing the first pass from the opposite
direction (drip tape is offset). End of season, run a rotary mower over the
bed, pull up the drip tape, run a tiller over the bed and it’s ready for
another crop. I really like
having gotten away from regular plastic mulches and going to the Bio-telo. I
consider myself to be very conscientious about getting plastic out of the
field, but years after pulling plastic, I can still till a field and find small
pieces of it in the soil. And in a dry year it’s next to impossible to get
out, and weeds along the edge are always a problem. With the Bio-telo, I can
cultivate right up against the plastic, even cutting it, as long as the
cultivator is throwing soil back over the edge to cover it back up, so we no
longer have the weeds growing along the edge of the bed. End of the growing
season, I just pull drip and till. If it’s mid-season, I can fertilize and
have a bed ready to be planted that same day. Really quick and efficient. Our
Oliver 1265 handles a Curtis 72” tiller, and we can spread fertilizer
(composted chicken manure 3-4-3), till up the mulch, come back with the mulch layer
(and drip tape) and have a bed ready to plant into. Most mulch
layers use a set of disc to open up a furrow for the plastic and a following
disc to cover the plastic with soil. If you look at the link, go to the
section 4-3. There are 3 pictures on the right hand side of the page. The
middle picture shows a different type of rear “shovel”. Instead of a disc, it’s
a long “shovel”. I don’t now the name for it, but it leaves a flat aisle way behind
it instead of a ditch that you trip in all season long. And Paul answered
this question cause Alison called him. Paul Au Naturel Farm Thanks for your time. Have a great growing season. Brian Luton www.stonesthrowfarm.biz |
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[Market-farming] Mulch Layer,
bcluton, 03/24/2009
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Re: [Market-farming] Mulch Layer,
Wiediger, Alison, 03/25/2009
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Re: [Market-farming] Mulch Layer,
bcluton, 03/26/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] Mulch Layer/ Buckeye, Paul Wiediger, 03/26/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] Mulch Layer, Wiediger, Alison, 03/26/2009
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Re: [Market-farming] Mulch Layer,
bcluton, 03/26/2009
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Re: [Market-farming] Mulch Layer,
ourfuture, 03/25/2009
- [Market-farming] unsubscribing, Richard Robinson, 03/25/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] Mulch Layer, clearviewfarm, 03/25/2009
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Re: [Market-farming] Mulch Layer,
Wiediger, Alison, 03/25/2009
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