June 8 at 3:20 PM · Our baby melon plants get the black plastic mulch treatment, to help conserve water and use the sun’s warmth to bring the plant to maturity.
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Strawberry plants
June 7 at 5:29 PM · We have planted these young strawberry plants on a special kind of plastic mulch that has white color on the side facing the sun and black color underneath. The white minimizes the uptake of heat from the rays of the sun, while the black helps prevent weeds from growing under …
June 15 · Getting some mulch down under a gunmetal-colored sky.
Planted Tomatoes
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Black Plastic Mulch
[xf_textblock size=” font_color=” color=” animation_type=” animation_duration=’0.5′ animation_delay=’0.5′] We are laying black plastic mulch with drip irrigation tape underneath it in preparation for planting field tomatoes. Black plastic mulch not only enables the tomatoes to grow to harvest size sooner, but it also conserves water by cutting down on water loss from evaporation as the water …