Mulches: From organic to plastic. Woods Houghton. Agricultural Extension Office. It has been hot and dry, but we received some rain. We need to be doing things in our landscape and garden to ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Each year, on our fruit-and-vegetable farm in New England, my family covers about a quarter of our 50 acres with plastic mulch. Rolls of it, five feet wide ...

View full sizePeppers and other warm-weather veggies get a head start with plastic mulch.Wikimedia Commons The weather is confusing -- and irritating. Errgg. Baskets of annuals are hanging ...

Performance of Paper Mulches Using a Mechanical Plastic Layer and Water Wheel Transplanter for the Production of Summer Squash. HortTechnology , 20: 319-324 (2010) [ abstract ] Cite This Page : ...

For example, plastic mulches can typically be used for only one cropping season, after which they must be removed and disposed of, creating expensive and time-consuming processes for growers.

Polyethylene mulches, used widely in commercial vegetable production have distinct disadvantages. Disposal options are limited, and plastic mulches often end up in landfills, being burned or ...

Plastic mulches do require a little more work and expense at the start, especially with adding drip irrigation, but the other advantages, including over-all increase in vegetable production, ...

Research is showing that some crops do even better when colored plastic mulches are used. For one of Kansas gardener’s favorites – tomatoes – the color choice is…red. (Surprise!) ...

Organic mulches are derived from plant materials that eventually decompose and become part of the soil. There are inorganic mulches, as well, including plastic sheeting of various kinds and gravels.

Researchers have found that the plastic mulch used to support the growth of Californian strawberries sheds large quantities of plastic mulch fragments. These particles have been shown to ...