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James wrote:

Get ideas from Israeli farming techniques.
What's that? Plant one Palestinian with each corn seed?

Keep in mind that tighter spacing means foliage covering the ground and
less moisture loss due to evaporation.

- Bill
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Only if you ain't mulching.

Then we are talking a matter of degree. Warm mulch will evaporate water
but to a lesser extent than nekkid soil and, plant cover will even lower
that.

- Bill
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