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bjrogg:
Looks great Eric. Always enjoy seeing your garden. You can always tell when a person has a green thumb.
Good luck with your crops. That’s the farmer in me. Just love to watch everything grow.
Bjrogg
PS. Just curious if you ever tried cardboard in place of plastic? I know some do. I’m sure there’s pros and cons to both
PaulN/KS:
Still a bit before I can start mine up here in Kansas. My asparagus is coming up nice though. But since I don't do potatoes or other of the early crop stuff I need to wait till the ground warms up a bit still. Plus, there's still a chance of frost yet here as well.
Question, you ever try the black fabric that folks put under rock gardens that's supposed to stop the weeds?
Eric Krewson:
I have found that things like pole beans germinate and grow better if they are planted through a strip of landscape fabric. I am putting more and more strips of landscape fabric down the planted rows. I put black plastic on the bare spots to keep the weeds down. Plants like okra, squash and tomatoes like black plastic, I think this is so because these plants shade the ground from the Alabama sun. Spinach will only have a germination rate of about 10% or less if planted through plastic but does really well planted through landscape fabric.
I experiment with different planting techniques every year just to see what happens. A couple of years ago my yellow squash grew into my electric fence, there wasn't a bug or stalk borer on any of them all season, the vines grew out for at least 12 ft. I have been trying to figure out a way to put this finding into practice.
PaulN/KS:
Thanks Eric,
I too have used a lot of "barnyard" fertilizer, mostly horse from the horse farm nearby, and it is pretty weedy. I might give the landscape fabric a try this year.
You ever try the New Zealand spinach variety? I had good luck with it one year. Not as well since though.
Pappy:
Looking good Eric, you stay busy that's for sure. :)
Pappy
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