Vegetables Gardening - Growing Organic Vegetables

I haven't done any solarization, but I understand that you must wet the
ground well before to create a steam effect as part of the
solarization/sterilization. My dad used to use a boiler house to pipe hot
steam to heavy canvas covered beds with big chain weights on each side in
his commercial chrysanthemum nursery between crops.

I guess I don't mind weeding so much. Wherever I had lawn I would turn it
over just below the thatch and use the upturned thatch as mulch. This is at
one place. The house I live in now has had a heavily peat mossed lawn area
and this didn't work as well because the peat moss was a little by
hydrophobic, or whatever you call it. I found that the lasagna method or
straw mulch does better in this instance.

I used to have chickens too, and they were great for eating those sowbugs
and stuff too. I miss them, and I guess I could have up to four according
to our zoning ordinances, but I don't know when I have to sell this house
and move (depending on elderly parents status), so I'm putting off getting
any more animals that may be a problem finding housing for during the
transition.

K.

On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Bernard Bailey
<bernardbailey1@verizon.net>wrote:

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> Two thoughts: First, if you rototill, wait a week, do it again, and repeat
> a couple of times, you can kill the top and desiccate the roots, and
> completely kill out even perennial weeds. I have done it, and it works.
> The second is to build a temporary chicken pen over the area, and the
> chickens will kill it all for you. If you till first, then put in chickens,
> it's even faster, and the chickens with scratch up the roots and rhizomes
> the grass uses to regrow. This works well, too. Bernie
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