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  • From: "Scott Williamson" <swilliamson@acespower.com>
  • To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: RE: [NAFEX] Solarizing Soil
  • Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 11:16:28 -0500

I tried it once. It worked OK, but didn't kill off weeds with deep roots.
I'm currently using cardboard boxes (plain cardboard with no coloring or
glossing) with a few rocks on the corners to hold them down. They are a good
mulch and will rot down in a year or two and can also be mulched over the top
of when you're ready. You can just dig a hole through the boxes to put your
plant in. It does take a year or more to really kill most of the weeds under
them though and some persistent ones find ways through the cracks as well.
And it doesn't exactly look pretty if that matters to you.

Scott,
Indiana Zone 5b

-----Original Message-----
From: Volkening, Tom [mailto:volkenin@mail.lib.msu.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 11:05 AM
To: North American Fruit Explorers
Subject: [NAFEX] Solarizing Soil


Has anyone tried solarizing the soil as a way of killing off grass, weeds,
etc. before planting dwarf fruit trees, blueberries or various cane fruit? I
am in zone 5 near Lansing, MI.

Thanks,

Tom Volkening
Engineering Librarian
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824
Phone: 517-432-1498
Fax: 517-353-9041
Email: volkenin@msu.edu
volkenin@egr.msu.edu

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  • [NAFEX] Solarizing Soil, Volkening, Tom, 03/23/2004
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    • RE: [NAFEX] Solarizing Soil, Scott Williamson, 03/23/2004

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