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  • From: Jay Sleichter <jaysleichter AT yahoo.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Florida Weave (and some Pumpkin info)
  • Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 05:30:58 -0700 (PDT)

I don't know what Richard uses, but I saw someone burning holes in plastic/landscape fabric with a tin can.  The attached a tin can to a stick, probably a screw through the bottom and had a big torch that they used to heat it up. It was one of the wand torches attached to a grill bottle.  Need a different sized hole, get a different sized can.

Very simple idea and it looked like it worked nice.  As I said this is something that I saw,  I have not used it.

Jay

Jay's Jellies, Produce and More
Clay Center, Kansas
www.jaysjellies.com

--- On Fri, 3/19/10, Don Lareau <dlareau AT tds.net> wrote:

From: Don Lareau <dlareau AT tds.net>
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Florida Weave (and some Pumpkin info)
To: "'Market Farming'" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Date: Friday, March 19, 2010, 7:23 AM

What do you use to burn the holes and how do you control the size?  We are looking to use landscape fabric for a variety of crops.

Thanks, Don

 

Zephyros Farm and Garden

Daphne Yannakakis and Don Lareau

11466 3725 Rd.

Paonia, Co. 81428

970-527-3636

www.zephyrosfarmandgarden.com

dlareau AT tds.net

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Richard Stewart
Sent: Friday, March 19, 2010 5:12 AM
To:
Market Farming
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Florida Weave (and some Pumpkin info)

 

We are going to be a small plot of tomatoes this year.  Maybe 100 plants total.  We'll still be selling small tomatoes, but we are getting out of the tomato business pretty much all together and are simply growing for our selves.  We will be doing what the folks at Half Pint Farm do.  Set posts, run a high tensile steel cable (trellis wire in our case) over the top anchored at both ends and tie as they grow.

 

The entire patch will be covered in landscaping fabric with holes for the plants so irrigation and weed control is super simple.

 

We also grow soup pumpkins (Musque de France from Johnny's if I remember correctly) for a couple local restaurants by request.  These are also grown on landscaping fabric as well.  I cannot recommend it enough.  Better than plastic, last several seasons as it is fairly UV tolerant.  If you burn the holes using a propane torch the ends of the fabric cauterize and you avoid more damage when you remove it the following season (we rotate).  If you cut the holes they have a tendency to tear when you remove.

 

Richard Stewart

Carriage House Farm

North Bend, Ohio

 

An Ohio Century Farm Est. 1855

 

(513) 967-1106

 


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