The black material is 4' wide 1 mil thick black embossed plastic mulch. It comes on a 4' roll that is 2400' long. Also available in 4000' lengths but it is heavy to move. We fertilize after we plow and before we finish the field. Then we run a 6' rototiller down the rows and then lay the black plastic with a mulch layer. T-Tape drip tape is buried under the mulch at the same time. The rows are 6' apart give or take however straight I drive. The plants are 2' apart in the rows. This field only had about 450 plants and was planted in late June or early July. Our main field had about 3000 plants. I leave a spray row between every 6 rows. It also makes harvesting easier. We stake tomatoes using a weave method. Between every other plant a 4' stake is driven in and then twine is tied to the end stake and weaves between the plants wraps around the next stake then weaves between the next 2 plants and wraps around the next stake. When you get to the end you go back the other side of the row weaving on the opposite side of the plants and tie it off when you are back at the beginning. As the plants grow taller you add anther string about 6 - 8" higher. We usually use string 3 times sometimes 4. This planting only got 2 strings so it is down somewhat. The strings keep the fruit off the ground and we get much less rot. We fertigate during the season ie. inject fertilizer through the drip tape as we irrigate. For a lot of boring pictures of the farm this and past years go here: http://s40.photobucket.com/albums/e249/Philcase/ There are videos of the mulch layer and our planter working.
For my daughter's blog of this past summer's farming adventures go here: http://doudsfloydfarm.blogspot.com/
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