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  • From: <sunnfarm AT netscape.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] strip tillage
  • Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2010 17:46:17 -0700

Many years ago I rented a 28 acre hillside. Washington silt loam one of the
most fertile soils in the world but erodes badly. "Washington washes" we all
used to say. So I decided to strip till and seed to pumpkins watermelons and
cukes. Rototilled slots for rows let sod grow in middles. Sod took up all the
moisture and grew a lot of weeds. The weeds made safe haven for cucumber
beetles, leafhoppers and thrips. Not only did I not get a profitable crop but
the weedy hillside made me look like a fool. The following year I used burn
down herbicides to kill the sod and made a nice crop but never tried it
again. Nothing is better for vegetables than a clean plowed field... Bob.
Sunny Meadow Farm
Bridgeton, NJ.

On Sat, April 3, 2010 2:47 pm, Johnathan Avery Yelenick wrote:
> Hi,
> Does anyone have experience with strip tilling for small-scale, organic,
> diversified vegetable production? What strip till implements do you like?
> Is this tactic amenable to small-scale, organic and diversified
> production?
>
> Regards,
> Johnathan Yelenick
> Blacktail Permaculture Farm
> South Platte River Watershed


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