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  • From: Road's End Farm <organic87 AT frontiernet.net>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] no-till and farming with horses
  • Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 13:41:37 -0400


On May 15, 2010, at 10:23 AM, Bill Shoemaker wrote:

You need equipment that is really beefed up to handle the residue. Steve Groff in Pennsylvania is who you're referring to I believe. We've been using tilled strips in rye for cover cropped pumpkins. Then you can run a regular transplanter or seeder down the rows, use plastic mulch, etc. It really makes it easier but you still gain a lot from the rye mulch mat, including weed control, moisture retention, clean pumpkins and reduced fruit rot potential. Another big benefit is that PYO customers in the Fall can walk out onto the mulch to pick up fruit, even after a rain. We have a large grower in N Ill who has adopted the system and seems pretty happy with it.

Bill, are you using an herbicide to prevent weed growth in the mulch mat?

-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale







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