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Re: [Market-farming] What percent of your time do you spend weeding?
- From: Beth Spaugh <lists AT rhomestead.com>
- To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] What percent of your time do you spend weeding?
- Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2016 22:13:38 -0400
Don't know the time, but I quickly figured that putting ground cloth
between plastic beds really pays for itself in saved labor. Ground
cloth at Sam's Club, $30 for 225 x 4 ft. Can pay for itself in one
day. Got a huge chunk of used silage tarp from a dairy and am hoping to use that some to reduce plastic mulch usage. First few years with just me, by hand, going to farmers market, we built up a huge weed seed bank. On 4/6/2016 9:40 PM, Road's End Farm
wrote:
4CAABE5F-A651-40E3-95C4-1BFEB95C2B96 AT frontiernet.net" type="cite">I'm not really sure what percent of my time I spend on weed control. Some of it's tractor cultivation, some of it's cultivating with the rototiller, some of it's wheel hoe, some of it's handweeding, some of it's mulching with plastic or straw (which both serve other purposes as well), some of it's mowing -- and some of it, as Elaine said, is done while doing other things; I'll often weed while harvesting, or while checking crops to write up the harvest lists, or while checking an irrigation zone, or just while enroute from one area to another. -- Beth Spaugh Rehoboth Homestead, Peru NY http://rhomestead.com http://www.facebook.com/rhomestead "How we eat determines, to a considerable extent, how the world is used." - Wendell Berry "Without power over our food, any notion of democracy is empty." - Frances Moore Lappe It's not that nice guys finish last. They have a whole different notion where the finish line is. - unknown |
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[Market-farming] What percent of your time do you spend weeding?,
Richard Robinson, 04/06/2016
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Re: [Market-farming] What percent of your time do you spend weeding?,
elaine granata, 04/06/2016
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Re: [Market-farming] What percent of your time do you spend weeding?,
Road's End Farm, 04/06/2016
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Re: [Market-farming] What percent of your time do you spend weeding?,
Beth Spaugh, 04/06/2016
- Re: [Market-farming] What percent of your time do you spend weeding?, Road's End Farm, 04/06/2016
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Re: [Market-farming] What percent of your time do you spend weeding?,
S Sohn, 04/06/2016
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Re: [Market-farming] What percent of your time do you spend weeding?,
Beth Spaugh, 04/07/2016
- Re: [Market-farming] weeding, plastic mulch, row covers, repins, Road's End Farm, 04/07/2016
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[Market-farming] Indigo tomatoes,
Ken Bezilla, 04/07/2016
- Re: [Market-farming] Indigo tomatoes, Beth Spaugh, 04/07/2016
- Re: [Market-farming] Indigo tomatoes, Deb Taft, 04/07/2016
- Re: [Market-farming] Indigo tomatoes, elaine granata, 04/07/2016
- Re: [Market-farming] Indigo tomatoes, Brian Luton, 04/07/2016
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Re: [Market-farming] What percent of your time do you spend weeding?,
Beth Spaugh, 04/07/2016
- Re: [Market-farming] What percent of your time do you spend weeding?, S Sohn, 04/07/2016
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Re: [Market-farming] What percent of your time do you spend weeding?,
Beth Spaugh, 04/06/2016
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Re: [Market-farming] What percent of your time do you spend weeding?,
Road's End Farm, 04/06/2016
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Re: [Market-farming] What percent of your time do you spend weeding?,
elaine granata, 04/06/2016
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