Huckleberry Finn
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Plastic is hands down the way to go. I've laid miles of it. Provided that you bury it correctly so that it's not flapping in the wind, it works well. Cloth is even better. Just tuck your drip lines under either one and you're good to go. And, of course in a perfect world, that's all inside a high-tunnel greenhouse.
I miss gardening something fierce.
I think it's Ron that doesn't like horse manure, but the best compost I've ever used was horse and goat manure, with a few goats mixed in, and cast off potting soil from a greenhouse. That stuff grew wonders... At the farm I used to work on, we used to get the village's leaf piles when they collected each fall and they'd sit for a few years just breaking down. We'd work it up with the disk and that was also great to grow in. Best of all, it was pure profit. Farmer got the leaves free from the village and then turned them into a good product. I think we used to sell if for like $10 a yard.
I miss gardening something fierce.
I think it's Ron that doesn't like horse manure, but the best compost I've ever used was horse and goat manure, with a few goats mixed in, and cast off potting soil from a greenhouse. That stuff grew wonders... At the farm I used to work on, we used to get the village's leaf piles when they collected each fall and they'd sit for a few years just breaking down. We'd work it up with the disk and that was also great to grow in. Best of all, it was pure profit. Farmer got the leaves free from the village and then turned them into a good product. I think we used to sell if for like $10 a yard.
