Re: OT Frost on the pumpkin er tomato

Posted by philcaseinWPA on October 30, 2007 at 05:42:41 from (146.186.54.125):

In Reply to: Re: OT Frost on the pumpkin er tomato posted by mark on October 29, 2007 at 15:23:16:

Hi Mark,
Embossed plastic is manufactured so that it has a very slight texture I think, it is not even noticeable. It is supposed to stay on the ground better. It is either 1 mil or 1.25 mil but very thin but strong. Deer make more holes in it than any thing else. The manufacturer I use is Pliant and I buy it through Zimmerman Irrigation (Trickleeze).
We either spray between the rows with herbicide or run the rototiller down the rows or both. If you are real careful you can run a rototiller real close without catching the edge of the plastic. This year I used Sandea, Sencor, and Dual as a banded spray between the rows. It worked well in the tomatoes. I planted after we sprayed. You can spray Sencor over the top of tomatoes and potatoes to control broadleaf weeds or Poast to control grasses.
To inject the fertilizer I have an apparatus called a dosatron that uses the water pressure in your irrigation supply line to suck a liquid fertilizer solution into the system, uses the venturi principle. (Same thing that makes a perfume atomizer work or gives an airplane wing lift.)
We market all of our tomatoes retail either at our on farm stand or at 3 farmers' markets we attend. We are fortunate to be in an area with a large population and not many farms.
Phil

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