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[KissMy]

The color red helps certain plants produce more crops.

I'm going to need to see some kind of verification on this.

There is a lot of info on this. A Rainbow of Colors to Increase Yields

I had not heard this before but I do have a variety of colors of carpet I am using for mulch in my garden. It just so happens that my wife planted tomatoes in the red / maroon carpet this year. We had the best tomato crop ever this time. The plants put on so many tomatoes that they would not stand up even with those tomato cages on them. We took our patio chairs out there & laid the branches across them & used them as bracing to keep the cages from buckling falling over because two of the cages did bend an fell over. My parents & friends all had failed tomato crops this year even in their topsy turvy planters. As a side note the one cucumber & 2 watermelon plants in the red section died. I think I hit them to hard with fertilizer 2 days before. The remaining watermelon plants were in the mottled golden/green/brown carpet section & they produced the best watermelons I have grown to date.

Another thing people say & we have learned is true over the years is to not plant near a walnut tree. The walnuts will poison & kill many garden plants especially tomatoes. Even if the walnut tree is far away & a squirrel brings a walnut or 2 into the tomato patch, the tomato plants next to the walnut will get sick & wither. Squirrels & rabbits are always hell on the garden & fruit trees in general. For the last 2 years since we have been using used carpet on the garden they have not bothered anything in there. They have continued to destroy the fruit on the fruit tree orchard where we do not used carpeting. I do not know why this is so.

All I know is that my FREE USED CARPET GARDEN has out produced my friends & extended families gardens for the 2 years I have been doing it. I now do nearly no work in the garden & they are out there spending money, weeding, tilling & fussing over theirs. I have grown the best garden I have ever grown with carpet & spent the least & done the least work on it ever.

 

[bigrebnc1775]

The color red helps certain plants produce more crops.

I'm going to need to see some kind of verification on this.

Colored Plastic Mulches for Vegetable Gardening
If we turn their summary "upside-down"--that is, list by mulch color instead of vegetable--what we get is this:

•Red - eggplants, tomatoes.

•Metallized Silver - peppers, potatoes.

•Dark Blue - cucumbers, summer squash, muskmelons ("cantelopes"), probably watermelons.

•Green IRT - muskmelons ("cantelopes"), probably watermelons.

 

[KissMy]

The color red helps certain plants produce more crops.

I'm going to need to see some kind of verification on this.

Colored Plastic Mulches for Vegetable Gardening
If we turn their summary "upside-down"--that is, list by mulch color instead of vegetable--what we get is this:

•Red - eggplants, tomatoes.

•Metallized Silver - peppers, potatoes.

•Dark Blue - cucumbers, summer squash, muskmelons ("cantelopes"), probably watermelons.

•Green IRT - muskmelons ("cantelopes"), probably watermelons.

I have been told that crops like tomatoes need to be rotated on a 4 year cycle. You don't want to replant them in the same area again for 4 years. So you have to move your colored mulches around the garden to follow the crop rotation. All I do is drag the colored carpets around.

 

[bigrebnc1775]

I'm going to need to see some kind of verification on this.

Colored Plastic Mulches for Vegetable Gardening
If we turn their summary "upside-down"--that is, list by mulch color instead of vegetable--what we get is this:

•Red - eggplants, tomatoes.

•Metallized Silver - peppers, potatoes.

•Dark Blue - cucumbers, summer squash, muskmelons ("cantelopes"), probably watermelons.

•Green IRT - muskmelons ("cantelopes"), probably watermelons.

I have been told that crops like tomatoes need to be rotated on a 4 year cycle. You don't want to replant them in the same area again for 4 years. So you have to move your colored mulches around the garden to follow the crop rotation. All I do is drag the colored carpets around.

True you would rotate your crops, but sheets of plastic with slit's in it works better and is lighter.

 

[Douger]

Its 349 AM where I am,
In an hour or so I will go feed my animals, collect eggs, milk the goat.
I also need to take down the windmill and see how the bearings look/re*pack before the windy season begins.
Any kweztiunz ?

 

[editec]

All I have to say is bring baby. We will use them as target practice

LOL.

Just keep telling yourself that

That's all we ask.

You think we haven't planned for people like you. I suggest if you don't have a well armed grouped of 100 or more don't bother because we are trained for those who think they can.

You really are missing my point.

That's okay, I'm not going out of my way to make it clearly.

However, if you really a real suvivalist, sooner or later you'll get my point.

Or if you don't have the horsepower to think it through until you understand my point, surely somebody in your survivalist group of 100 will get it.

Here's a hint though...the tallest nail is the first one the hammer strikes.

Plan accordingly.

 

[KissMy]

OMG - I went to the garden this morning & I had to use a wheel barrow to bring in the watermelons & tomatoes. I had been getting a bucket or two a day but they are ripening in mass now. I was already running low on canning jars & shelf space after canning all the other veggies. We have been eating watermelon nearly every day. Looks like my neighbor who owns a restaurant is going to get lucky again in a couple of days. He already took 2 wheel barrows of sweet corn off my hands over a month ago.

 

[bigrebnc1775]

OMG - I went to the garden this morning & I had to use a wheel barrow to bring in the watermelons & tomatoes. I had been getting a bucket or two a day but they are ripening in mass now. I was already running low on canning jars & shelf space after canning all the other veggies. We have been eating watermelon nearly every day. Looks like my neighbor who owns a restaurant is going to get lucky again in a couple of days. He already took 2 wheel barrows of sweet corn off my hands over a month ago.

Time to start the obama doctrine spread your harvast I will be expecting some watermelons and maters soon. Socialism might be a good thing.

 

[bigrebnc1775]

LOL.

Just keep telling yourself that

That's all we ask.

You think we haven't planned for people like you. I suggest if you don't have a well armed grouped of 100 or more don't bother because we are trained for those who think they can.

You really are missing my point.

That's okay, I'm not going out of my way to make it clearly.

However, if you really a real suvivalist, sooner or later you'll get my point.

Or if you don't have the horsepower to think it through until you understand my point, surely somebody in your survivalist group of 100 will get it.

Here's a hint though...the tallest nail is the first one the hammer strikes.

Plan accordingly.

Sometimes people just can't seem to hit that nail