It said it had happened before and staff had just removed the plastic each time. However, when officials came to take the ...

Aluminum foil coated paper and aluminized plastic mulches are occasionally available at some garden centers. These materials repel viruscarrying aphids that infect late plantings of summer squash.

Dr. Emmert is known as the father of agricultural plastics in the U.S. and he developed the use of agricultural plastic through his research on greenhouses, row covers and mulches. More recently, in ...