Claim · model-written summary
Hay mulch reduced annual weed growth after tomato planting.
- Taxon
- tomato
Solanum lycopersicume0 - Treatment
- Hay mulches applied at 15 to 24 Mg ha−1e0
- Interactor
- annual weedse0weed
- Outcome
- growth of annual weedse0
- Direction
- reducede0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Hay mulches applied at 15 to 24 Mg ha−1 (ca. 100 mm depth) several weeks after tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) planting substantially reduced the growth of annual weeds”
Title
Mark W. Schonbeck Journal of Sustainable Agriculture 1999. doi:10.1300/j064v13n02_04
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Intervention effect Hay mulch sometimes saved net labour relative to no mulch.
- Observation Grass seed carried by hay visibly contributed to weed growth in one of eight trials.
- Intervention effect Composted yard waste controlled weeds less effectively than hay mulch.
- Intervention effect Black plastic blocked weeds apart from a few through planting holes.
- Intervention effect Plastic required more mulching and transplanting labour than organic mulch.
- Observation Plastic yielded no net labour savings.
- Observation Alleys between plastic-mulched rows required additional weed control.
- Observation Kraft paper mulch decomposed before season end.
- Intervention effect Kraft paper provided less weed control than plastic.
- Intervention effect Two newsprint layers under hay or straw significantly enhanced weed suppression.