Q: In your Aug. 16 column concerning tomatoes, you mentioned red plastic mulch. Is the mulch shredded or in sheets? If it's in sheets, how do you water the plants properly? A: Red plastic mulch for ...

Farmers will often place sheets of plastic on the ground along their crop rows, in order to help hold moisture in the soil. According to a new study, however, the use of wax-coated sand may be a ...

A study by city-based environmental organisation Toxics Link has found a high abundance of microplastics in several places across the country due to the use of plastic mulching sheets in agriculture ...

In order to keep water from evaporating from the soil, farmers often cover the ground around their crop plants with sheets of polyethylene plastic. There could soon be a more eco-friendly alternative, ...

I have a tip that will save you money on your next landscape project. It will also save time and management costs: Use no plastic. That includes solid plastic sheets and the so-called weed-blocking ...

At first, the plastic sheeting being sold as mulch appears to be a cure-all for weed problems. Lay it on the ground, cut holes only where you will set plants, and weeds will die from lack of light, ...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China vowed to improve the recycling rates of plastic mulch used in farming, the government said on Wednesday, amid mounting concerns about soil contamination as unrecovered bits ...