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Friday, November 13, 2009
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shazzy
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Joliet, IL
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checked on some of the cover crop seeds and i saw today that the radicals are emerging eventhough the temps got below freezing 2 nights ago. i read most fall cover crop seeds can still germinate over 33 degrees and grow slowly over the freezing point. i am glad it worked out that the radicals weren't already emerging the night of the hard freeze. just in case, i threw down a second round of the tsc fall cover crop mix today after soaking the seeds for a couple hours first. being so late, doubling up on seeds will give me a better chance of more of them taking root and growing strong enough to endure the next hard freeze. temps look good for the next 10 days, and i would like the sprouts to get the most out of that stretch, so i tried the reemay circus tent over the entire patch. a 300 foot roll of 10' wide reemay does the trick for my patch size. 3 ropes running across the patch, wrapped around the top of 7' tall rebar with plastic osha caps in the center and then attached to the other side of the patch holds the reemay up nicely. bricks or just tying to the fence on each side hold the reemay firmly in place. and office clamps are used to hold each 10' section together to make it one big piece connected together. i bought the roll for next fall if i needed it, and i figured what the hell. lets see how it works now to help the cover crop get going and get some better ideas how to set it up next fall. these sections will be carefully removed latter on and resused if they do not get ripped up too much. so far so good even in the gusts of winds today. this will be much better for next year than visqueen if i need to get some extra warmth during a cold stretch come late august or september.
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