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  • From: Pat Meadows <pat AT meadows.pair.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] planting out tomatoes
  • Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 12:58:11 -0400

On Mon, 11 May 2009 00:18:24 -0400, you wrote:

>Alison, glad you missed the wind, some weren't as lucky as us.
>
>4'x5000'- left off a 0. I guess you figured that.
>I wonder what that white "paint stuff" is they spray on hoophouses for shade
>is made of?

I think it is whitewash and washes off after some time (and some amount of
rain).

I have never known what whitewash really is, so....looking it up, I find
that --

"Whitewash, or calcimine, kalsomine, or calsomine is a very low cost type
of paint made from slaked lime (calcium hydroxide) and chalk (whiting).
Various other additives have also been used." (From Wikipedia.)

Pat
-- North-Central Pennsylvania, USA
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