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Saturday, January 09, 2016
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Ron W.
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Coventry RI USA
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This year we will try soil solarization on areas that will not be planted, in hopes of reducing our 3 year rest/rotation schedule to every other year. After much reading about this topic we will do the following: Spring planting of Mustard, when the mustard flowers it will be chopped up, chicken compost will be added on top of the mustard. Everything will then be tilled under and heavily watered to wet the soil down about a foot. After this is done we will cover the soil with 5 mil greenhouse plastic. Cinder blocks will be used to anchor the plastic. I scored 2- 40x100 sheets (shown in photo) for "free" when the greenhouse down the street was changing plastic. Hopefully we will have a warm summer and I can bring soil temps under the plastic over 110 degrees for 2-4 weeks. This "should" help with weed and pathogen suppression.
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