Re: CULT: Solarizing was...Rotating was... Cutting foliage
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- Subject: Re: CULT: Solarizing was...Rotating was... Cutting foliage
- From: D* B* <d*@llano.net>
- Date: Sat, 29 Mar 1997 21:04:51 -0700 (MST)
> I make my own by bending a 14" piece of wire (coathanger, baling wire,
> etc.) to make a staple with 6" prongs and a 2" space between them. I just
> push it through the plastic into the ground.
>
> Haven't lost any plastic or row covers yet.
Sounds like what I used this year. Mine were the short label stakes
that I no longer use. They are about 6" long, U shaped with the legs
about 1" apart. The 40 - 50 mile per hour winds we have been having
just pick up the plastic and tug on it until the staples tear through a
double fold of the plastic or pull out of the ground. I gave up today
and took it all up. Better luck next time :-)
--
Dana Brown, Lubbock, Texas Zone 7
Where we are 3,241 ft above sea level, with an average rainfall of
17.76"
of rain a year. Our average wind speed is 12.5 mph and we have an
average
of 164 days of clear weather, 96 of which dip below freezing.
