This is a helpful thread for us. We have ruined two backpack sprayers by scoring the pump cylinders with particulate matter. We built our own pump and tank system for our BD road right-of-way weed project with a shurflow pump on a 50 gallon drum and a professional triggered nozzel with interchangeable orifices that cost $100US. Could someone go over the hand spray rigs that are available and rate them?
I'd like to start another thread about mulch. We used up all our round bales of organic straw last summer and I have been trying to round up mulch for 2002 season to no avail. Could people share their mulching systems? I have 50 French Intensive beds. We live in a wooded area with a 3 1/2 ac. game-fenced wild meadow and a woven fenced vegetable garden. We have a huge BD compost pile and our glacial till soil has been augmented with BD compost for 15 years. This is an arid northern climate and last summer was brutal in August and September. We need an in farm system to raise material for 5-6" mulch on everything, but don't have the type of place with acres of fields to grow oats or any farm animals. I need to get a good book on green manures and mulches. I realize this isn't a real BD problem, but it is what I need. Hope Allan will put this on. Merla Barberie Essie Hull wrote: > And is there a version that doesn't need a tractor to move it? As a home > gardener, I need a portable-by-person type. > Essie > > At 09:32 AM 1/12/02 -0500, you wrote: > >> It creates a 40 foot wide spray pattern without clumsy and > >>limiting booms for a mere $250. I mount it front and rear on my tractor and > >>depending on wind drift I open or close the appropriate nozzle. SStorch > > > >Where can a fellow pick one of these up?? -Allan > >
