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  • From: <clearviewfarm AT bluefrog.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Holding Down Row Cover
  • Date: Sun, 6 May 2012 06:52:57 -0700

The ones I use, 6 mil black plastic, are about 30% of what you pay. I
haven't used them long enough to know the life expectancy with sand or dirt
in them, but I do know that stones inside shorten their life noticeably.
$1.25 a piece might not be so bad if you consider the labor involved to fill
them...only once every 7 years versus half that or whatever and less disposal
headache.

Kurt Forman
Clearview Farm
Palmyra, NY 14522
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit
salad.

--- etienne AT lejardinduvillage.ca wrote:

From: Etienne Goyer <etienne AT lejardinduvillage.ca>
To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Holding Down Row Cover
Date: Sun, 06 May 2012 07:33:19 -0400

Dubois Agrinov has bags made specially for holding down row cover:

http://www.duboisag.com/en/floating-row-covers/accessories/floating-row-cover-bags/bag-with-handle-for-row-cover-row-bag.html

I bought a box of them. They work wonderfully well. But at 1.25$/bag,
they are mighty expensive. They are supposed to last 7 year, though.



On 12-05-05 09:16 AM, Richard Robinson wrote:
> On 5/5/2012 at 9:00:22 AM, andrea davis wrote:
>> How have people found is the best way to hold down row cover? In the past
>> I
>> have put dirt on it but then it is always a pain to remove it when things
>> need to be checked on. I heard something about laying rebar on the edges.
>
> I have tried rebar a couple times, but the rust on the bar grabbed the fuzz
> on the row cover, and wouldn't release easily. Stones work fine, but are
> variably sized and have no handles, making them somewhat of a pain to
> repeatedly move for inspection under the cover. Milk jugs with smaller
> stones in them (cut out on the side for filling, and with drain holes in
> the bottom) work well but have two problems: you need a generous amount of
> fabric on the ground underneath them for best holding power, since they
> exert no lateral force (unlike a sandbag) on the cover, and are likely
> themselves to be tipped over in a strong wind by the fabric pushing up on
> them; and they break down pretty quickly, and need replacing every year. I
> am trying small sandbags this year (10"x14", with ties) and can see their
> benefits. The tied top provides a handle, and they will lean into the
> vertical face of the fabric against a hoop, both holding the fabric and
> making the bag itself very hard to blow over
> in the wind.
>
>
> Richard Robinson
> www.nasw.org/users/rrobinson/
> Hopestill Farm
> www.hopestill.com
>
>
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