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RE: Red Plastic Film as Mulch

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> I remember seeing a story on Dateline (or one of those shows) on red film
> mulch. They performed an experiment to see if red film worked better than
> black film, and they found that it did work better on tomato plants!
> Apparently reflecting the red wavelengths up onto the plant encouraged
> tomatoes to ripen faster. 

It might be worth having a look at 
http://www.midnet.com/organic/bog/plasmulc.htm which is a short 
article about using different colours of plastic sheet for mulching.

Colin

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MidNet OnLine, Coventry, UK.

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