April 15th cometh
Pavel314 wrote:
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My wife uses the black plastic garden cloth method on some of her rows, cutting holes every so often to put the plants and leaving the plastic intact elsewhere to prevent weeds. One year, I decided to try that in the pumpkin patch and they all died early! I realized later that pumpkin vines put down roots every so often to get water for the far ends of the spread-out plants; when the roots on the extremities tried to get into the soil, they were stopped by the plastic.
yeah, that would be an issue for some varieties of
squash/pumpkins. some are more bush type and don't
do that (we've not grown any of those here yet).
songbird
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