In my backyard garden, I've been using blue pm for all my zucchini and red under all my tomatoes; has been working great. Material is quite thin though, and generally not in too great condition to reuse after a season or two. Blue is hard to find, by the way.
Question on the drip tape best to have the holes facing up to the sky or have the holes facing down to the dirt. I usume it would be facing down to the dirt?
Not really. The industry is working on vegetable based plastics. I know it's more time consuming but I recycle cardboard in my garden. Shredded as well as layered, it is mostly clean and sterile and helps maintain water use. It can be tilled into the ground after each use and breaks down quick. The plastic looks great but clean up sucks.
Is there a way to create these raised beds and lay plastic without a tractor I'm working in an urban farm environment and a tractor is too costly for our operation and we would have nowhere to store it
well >no more fuel for weekly cultivation of rows >no more herbicide for cultivation of rows >tends to double yields, more food per acre of land >drip tape alone cuts water usage by 50% >drip tape + mulch cuts water usage even further >polyethylene plastic is recyclable, can be reproduced at much lower cost than initial manufacture seems pretty environmentally friendly to me - you should to consider all aspects. and, too, you should probably consider that these are farmers whose livelihood depends on growing healthy food with very little incentive to inadvertently poison their crop.
@@mnpainter61 ldpe and hdpe can both be recycled, and together, with an ok recovery rate. What's important is that not all plastics can be efficiently recycled - some plastics, it costs less to make new than to collect and recycle, because of low yields and high cost of processing. Polyethylene has a recovery rate around 30%, whereas something like polystyrene cannot really be recycled at all.
I'm a farmer also, you have good straight eyes! But I wood never lay plastic without drip tape, to add fertilizer at anytime you need to. Maybe the crop you are putting down doesn't require much??? 👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀
Can you use simple plastic garbage bags over backyard veg gardens to get a similar effect? I’d like to warm my soil early as possible in spring but don’t have the budget for building cold frames...
Light penetrates and is absorbed into the soil. With black, light is absorbed into the plastic and must be absorbed from plastic to soil. Just like a green house uses clear covering, not black.
Well, if you consider the farmland itself to be a landfill then yes it does. Also do you consider your body a landfill? It's going in there too. In short, yes. Very sustainable. From the standpoint of microplastics.
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Thanks Ben you saved me from installing clear plastic for weeds.
Your site is amazing and your blogs are informative about Plastic Mulch
This is simple, and informative. Thank you for compiling this.
Good video for any serious home gardener....
Very inspiring,
Eny idea about STEP drip irregation used in mountain.
I watched the video and it is very educative
In my backyard garden, I've been using blue pm for all my zucchini and red under all my tomatoes; has been working great. Material is quite thin though, and generally not in too great condition to reuse after a season or two. Blue is hard to find, by the way.
Very clear and informative. Thank you!!
Question on the drip tape best to have the holes facing up to the sky or have the holes facing down to the dirt. I usume it would be facing down to the dirt?
Great tutorial thank you. We break ground on our farm this spring. 😍
Can the plastic be recycled at end of season?
no all trashed
It can be recycled. visit www.irispolymers.com
Is there a certain type of plastic sheet to use to keep chemicals from leaching chemicals from the plastic to the crops?
Not really. The industry is working on vegetable based plastics. I know it's more time consuming but I recycle cardboard in my garden. Shredded as well as layered, it is mostly clean and sterile and helps maintain water use. It can be tilled into the ground after each use and breaks down quick. The plastic looks great but clean up sucks.
Ur 1 of those
Is there a way to create these raised beds and lay plastic without a tractor I'm working in an urban farm environment and a tractor is too costly for our operation and we would have nowhere to store it
its really good idea, but how environment friendly is it when we use plastic.
well
>no more fuel for weekly cultivation of rows
>no more herbicide for cultivation of rows
>tends to double yields, more food per acre of land
>drip tape alone cuts water usage by 50%
>drip tape + mulch cuts water usage even further
>polyethylene plastic is recyclable, can be reproduced at much lower cost than initial manufacture
seems pretty environmentally friendly to me - you should to consider all aspects. and, too, you should probably consider that these are farmers whose livelihood depends on growing healthy food with very little incentive to inadvertently poison their crop.
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@@leeknivek Do you know of any farmer or gardener that recycles his plastic? What recycler will take it?
@@mnpainter61 ldpe and hdpe can both be recycled, and together, with an ok recovery rate. What's important is that not all plastics can be efficiently recycled - some plastics, it costs less to make new than to collect and recycle, because of low yields and high cost of processing.
Polyethylene has a recovery rate around 30%, whereas something like polystyrene cannot really be recycled at all.
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Hello , can i put straw as mulch below the plastic ?
I saw a video on instagram, the people were rolling what it looked like, a waterbed across their field. Water roll I think?
how much water pressure is needed to flow, would a large water tank 30' higher than the rows flow water
awesome
I'm a farmer also, you have good straight eyes! But I wood never lay plastic without drip tape, to add fertilizer at anytime you need to. Maybe the crop you are putting down doesn't require much??? 👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀
He does mention this at 7:31
Awesome!!
Can you use thicker plastic or does it have to be thinner like the video shows?
Depending upon the crops,, mulch thickness is suggested. Contact us at www.irispolymers.com
Can you use simple plastic garbage bags over backyard veg gardens to get a similar effect? I’d like to warm my soil early as possible in spring but don’t have the budget for building cold frames...
black plastic does not do a good job of warming soil--use clear plastic to warm soil and back to prevent weeds
yes you can use plastic bags to do this
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How is CLEAR warmer than BLACK?
Light penetrates and is absorbed into the soil. With black, light is absorbed into the plastic and must be absorbed from plastic to soil. Just like a green house uses clear covering, not black.
What about strawburry ?
Strawberry will require 30 Microns Mulch Silver And Black. Visit www.irispolymers.com for more details.
Hi sir you make video class for how to plant all tomatoes and chilli and all
Will it last a whole year or only one season like just three months or so?
It depends on the Microns. for eg, 25 microns have life of 6 months, 30 microns have life of 9 months and beyond. visit www.irispolymers.com
Where do you get your mulch and drip tape
You can get it at www.irispolymers.com
Soo....... mulch?
Organic is the way to go
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The most important question I have is, is it sustainable? If the plastic goes into landfills it should not be an option :(
And the labor to lay it down/ tear it up....
Well, if you consider the farmland itself to be a landfill then yes it does. Also do you consider your body a landfill? It's going in there too.
In short, yes. Very sustainable. From the standpoint of microplastics.
where can we purchase this?
we are the mulch film manufacture,welcome to contact me
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yummy microplastics
weed control between rows...no one talks about this!
eddie o run your cultivator or rototiller down once per week. easy
Use Weedmat from www.irispolymers.com to cover beds and gap between rows to safeguard soil.
Mulch not maulch
Buddy getting paid to sit as a counter weight
!plasticulture! What the fcuk ....
is there any chance that the plastic will be reusable ?
We can use by biodegradable material
good question
not reusable nor recycled