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biodegrading black 'plastic'

Posted by marys1000 zone 5 Neb (My Page) on
Wed, Dec 15, 04 at 15:25

On one of the HGTV gardening shows they briefly mentioned
a new soybean (or corn?) based black "plastic" that
degraded after about 90 days.
Anyone ever seen or used this stuff?
Mary, zone 5, almost in IA (across the river in NE)


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RE: biodegrading black 'plastic'

I haven't seen it. About 25-30 years ago we lived in Pekin Il. We had a nice small creek on the long south side of our property and we had daffodils naturalized in the thousands.

I also had a huge garden with the best black loam that went down ? feet. We had three dump trucks of horse manure in my garden from where we took riding lessons.

Everything was peachy keen until I tried some of the old fashioned black plastic. There was some new construction "UPCREEK" and about 4" of sand and clay washed over and covered the black plastic. What a mess!

Thank goodness we moved before I had to clean it up! LOL!

(No, I cleaned it up. I couldn't leave it that way for anyone, although I was sure tempted to at the time.)

If you find some of this new stuff, let us know how it works. You might try it in a small patch first given my experience many years ago.

Right now I have plenty of leaves from our neighbors for mulch.

Cheers!


 
 

 

 


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