Orchard ground cover - selection of horticultural ground cover (weed control fabric)
Orchard ground cover, also called horticultural ground cover, weed control fabric, weed barrier fabric, etc., is a product used in agriculture to suppress weed growth. It has been widely used over the past two years, and its overall cost is lower than manual weeding, greatly saving manpower and money. Author; one eight six five three four eight three six two six. It is a product worth promoting. The common types are made from two materials, polyethylene and polypropylene. Comparatively speaking, these two products each have advantages and disadvantages, and polyethylene products have a longer service life than polypropylene ones. However, many users pursue low prices, which leads some manufacturers to sell inferior products, and users often choose products priced below normal cost, resulting in a service life of less than one year. This has gradually formed a vicious cycle, causing most people to doubt the product. This is also a kind of sorrow; good products are never cheap. It has also caused the phenomenon of bad money driving out good money among manufacturers.
Weed control fabric
Conventional specifications of this product: 90-100g/sq m. Product width: 0.6m-6m. Product length: 100-300m (can also be customized according to customer needs). Product material: pp polypropylene / pe polyethylene / anti-aging auxiliary material; so why can some weed control fabric no longer be used after one year? This is because a few manufacturers pursue profit and users pursue low prices, resulting in the failure to add the anti-aging agent uv (that is, the addition of anti-aging auxiliary material) in the key wire-drawing stage and the use of a cheap material, thus causing the product's strength to be low and its service life to be short. Under ultraviolet irradiation, the product ages after more than a year or even a few months; uv is the key factor in the service life of weed control fabric, and its price also varies greatly, and the dosage added by each manufacturer is also kept secret. Therefore, selection must be careful. Do not save this little money per sq m and end up with the phenomenon of buying cheap but using expensive. Weed control fabric (horticultural ground cover) can prevent weeds from growing on the ground. Because the ground cover can block direct sunlight from reaching the ground (especially black ground cover), and at the same time uses the strong structure of the ground cover itself to prevent weeds from passing through the ground cover, it thereby ensures the ground cover's inhibitory effect on weed growth. It can promptly drain standing water (rainwater) from the ground. It is beneficial to plant root growth and prevents root rot. This effect also comes from the woven structure of the ground cover. This structure can ensure that no water accumulates at the crop roots, giving the air at the roots a certain mobility, thereby preventing root rot. In greenhouses, it is beneficial to cultivation management. Most ground covers are woven with one-way or two-way marking lines. When placing flower pots or arranging growing media inside or outside a greenhouse, arrangements can be made accurately according to these marking lines. The cost is also relatively low. The total investment for orchard ground cover tree-disk mulching and weed control is 600 yuan per mu. The one-time investment is relatively large, but the annual investment is only 120 yuan, which is 17% and 52% of manual weeding and plastic film mulching respectively; the total investment for horticultural ground cover whole-field mulching is 1180 yuan per mu, with an annual investment of 236 yuan, which is 33% of manual weeding and slightly higher than plastic film mulching.
In product selection, we should compare many options and choose carefully. After all, agricultural production is not easy, and money must be spent where it matters most to avoid unnecessary losses.
Orchard ground cover installation
Horticultural ground cover
Weed control fabric
Orchard weed control fabric