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Re: No-till

I have a detailed account of it in the good old Rodale's "How to Grow
Vegetables and Fruit by the Organic Method" Encyclopedia and might be
willing to encapsulate it for you if you can't find it (it's pretty long --
lots of typing).

Basically it involves dumping loads of straw or hay or any organic leafy
mulch right on top of your soil and then planting in that. Worked well for
some things and not so well for others. Don't know if pumpkins would be one
of them.

Denise McCann Beck
USDA Zone 7
Sunset Western 4
Coastal Bristish Columbia

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> From: Mike and Carolyn <neps@mail.atl.bellsouth.net>
> To: pumpkins@athenet.net
> Subject: No-till
> Date: October 12, 1997 12:43 PM
> 
> Is anyone familiar with the 'no-till' method of cultivation? I have
> heard it is superior to tilling but I don't understand how weed control
> is possible. I have also heard that the Zehrs used this method. Any
> thoughts?
> 
> Mike in Georgia
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