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Friday, August 22, 2008
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Bodene
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Clayton, Ohio, USA
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After hearing all the horror stories of soil born disease in my region, I decided I'd better try something preventative. It is typically hot and humid in the summer here - perfect breeding ground for insects and disease. I pulled both of my early plants as soon as I returned from the weigh-off, cleaning up as much plant material as possible. I watered the bare soil. I then covered each area with 25'x20' 4mil plastic sheeting. We should have at least 30 days of warm temps here during the day. I will leave this over the soil until the temps drop or Oct 1rst- whichever comes first. This allows me to still have time for fall patch prep work. They call this solarizing. It is supposed to help kill off pathogens, insects and weeds without the use of expensive toxic chemicals. I don't know how effective it will be, but its cheap to do and I can reuse the plastic to cover my compost piles this winter.
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