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RE: Bind weed
- To: "permaculture" <permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Subject: RE: Bind weed
- From: "Mike Skinner (Easy Hay)" <EasyHay@arn.net>
- Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 14:18:51 -0500
- Importance: Normal
- In-reply-to: <LYR101660-73243-2000.08.18-11.55.12--easyhay#arn.net@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Newsgroups: permaculture
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From: PINC [mailto:pinc@svn.net]
Sent: Friday, August 18, 2000 11:04 AM
To: permaculture
Subject: RE: Bind weed
I sheet mulched it with cardboard and newspaper in the spring. By the time
it emerges mid summer, most of the oomph is taken out of it and it becomes a
nice green ground cover and doesn't have enough energy to twine up the
plants. Other places it has been shaded out. I have never seen it grow
vigorously under plants like comfrey and rhubarb. It also prefers compacted
soil (according to an article I read about it). Once the soil is cushy and
soft, it is easy to pull. Digging & cultivating also propagates it. We don’
t' dig we only fork which lifts the roots out better Good luck!
The above fits what I’ve noticed farming. Don’t plow it! Always clean off
machinery of bindweed before moving
to another field. It likes compacted ground, too. I recall Bill cardboard
sheet mulching with straw in the Texas panhandle years ago at our once
Panhandle permaculture group at Mary Ememy’s Maybe Scott was there?? Shading
it out, not letting it get sun
has got to be bad for it, but Bushland, Tx USDA advises one to plow, even on
certain times of the moon. But,
anyone could figure that’s bad for tilth.
So, in an effort to always think of uses for bales, Arina, what about
spreading the mini-bales on the ground solid,
possibly laying cardboard, then poking holes thru the cardboard into the
bales and planting a viney crop. Better
yet, I could place viney seeds (or grass, etc), into the bales, then they
could be watered like a Chia pet? Unfortunately,
I can’t make bales with string, only wire, so it would be best to remove
the wires, first. But viney plants usually
only take one to four seeds per six foot hill, but I’m thinkin’! Austrian
Winter Peas could be placed in the bales, in
conjunction, as well. I might use the Chia bale idea with grass for when
land around pipelines or highways is replanted,
grinding and blowing the straw mulch and seeds thru the special mulching
machine. Same for strawberries. Sorry
for getting off topic a little and beating my on drum…..
Mike
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