Does absolved credit card or black charge plate study better for solarizing the soil ?
On Friday I posted on getting rid of St. Augustine green goddess … and then , serendipitously for all of you , my testimonial of sinister tarpaulin to down grass was challengedby an clause from NoTillVeggies.org * :
“ I ’ve got some data and I ’ve got some picture . Both are really interesting . If you leave out the first post on this undertaking , check it outhere . So far , clear tarps appear to be killing brood crops and weeds quickly and effectively- more effectively than black tarpaulin .
Carolyn check out the divergence between clear charge plate ( bottom ) and contraband charge plate ( top ) after two weeks of the tarp handling .
Seamus manage his crimped and tarped chef-d’oeuvre .
A flying re - chapiter . Seamus , eager undergraduate research worker and able farm helping hand in theAgroecology Labhere at the University of New Hampshire , wanted to seem at no - till transplanted cabbage into a rye whiskey - vetch mulch . He had access to aroller - crimp , but we had a feeling that just wheeling - crimping would create two problems : it might be hard to kill both the rye and the vetch at the same meter , and we would n’t have enough biomass to create a long - lasting grass suppressive mulch . We do n’t have biomass data yet , but while this covering crop performed nicely , it did n’t have the super high biomass as is require to create a really thickset , weed - suppressive mulch .
Carolyn checks out the difference between clear plastic (bottom) and black plastic (top) after two weeks of the tarp treatments.
To address the anticipate problems of not completely kill the cover crop and cause weeds present , we wanted to look atdifferent tarp type and durations of tarp intervention . We therefore terminate up with three “ tarp ” treatments : black tarp ( “ occultation ” ) , clear tarpaulin * ( “ solarisation ” ) , and no tarpaulin …
I extremely recommendreading the over post . Their results thus far are compelling . I love seeing research like this and congratulate and give thanks them for sharing their datum so we can all benefit .
Two pollex up !
Seamus overseeing his crimped and tarped masterpiece.
- h / liothyronine to Mart for sending the mail my path .
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