Used plastic mulch layer for sale craigslist

Right would be difficult, props to you and how diligent you are with that

You can build a simple mulch layer and get the covering discs from an ag store on line. Agrisupply comes to mind. Just find a picture of a simple one and duplicate it. You'll spend $40 each for the covering discs and $50 each for the wheels and shanks. I've owned a few and they all were simple machines.

At auction they are sometimes hard to sell and generally don't bring a lot of money so keep an eye out. BTW, I've got a four ft wide roll of plastic for sale cheap since we sold our mulch layer as we got older.

Also make sure the distance between 2 beds is big enough so you can use a tractor in between. Or put some ground cover like strow..

Otherwise you'll have lots of work weeding between the beds by hand.. unless you spray..

The one that is used on our farm is built like follow :
- 2 potato hill disks
- 1 roll with plastic
- 1 roll irrigation tape
- 1 roll for the bed shape and guidance of plastic
- 2 wheels to hold the plastic under the dirt
- another set of potato hill disks to cover the plastic under the wheels.

Simple principle but once more.. you'll have to keep up the maintenance between the beds or you're even in a deeper mess

Ah, that's interesting. Does someone offer that service? You'd need quite a bit of garden to make that worth while.

All the NRD's in Nebraska offer the service for tree planting. They have one of those and a machine that plants the trees right behind it. Used on shelter belts and wind breaks where long rows of trees are wanted. Some will rent them as well. Might check with your local county extension office.

A buddy of mine bought a used one off of Craigslist I found for him, in very good condition, for like $600 4-5 years ago. It did a very nice job of laying the mulch. His two biggest problems after the first year, was Deer punching holes though the plastic, and weeds popping up through those holes. The other problem was removing, and then disposing of it, when it outlived it's usefulness. He has a lot of weed pressure, and still had weeds coming up, close around the plants, in the holes they punched in, to plant through.

Personally, I use leaves to mulch with. I have a small town nearby that gathers leaves up in town, and they have a huge pile of leaves, free for the taking. I now have a neighbor with a lawn service, that provides leaf pickup in upscale neighborhoods in Columbus. He will bring them to me, saving him from hauling them half way around town, to a mulch facility. They work very well, and not all that hard to put down.

I also use 2-wheeled David Bradley walk behind garden tractors to cultivate, whatever I don't mulch. I plant in 30 inch rows, increasing the amount of crops, in a given space. I have 4 tractors set up with different cultivator shovels & sweeps, for different plant sizes, as the progress. Most, I have around $100 in apiece, so not a lot of overhead.

I've been trying to get my buddy who does the market garden, to try it for 5 years, and pretty well scoffed at the idea. I found a page on Facebook, called "Gardening for Market", that folks are now scaling back on equipment size, with narrow rows like I have, and getting more crop per acre. It is gaining popularity very fast..!! Some of them are farming 5-6 acres with smaller tractors than I have. So now, it has pretty well become the new rage in small farming. Sent the link to my buddy for that page to show him what can be done. Several are even modifying their small cultivators with what is called finger weeders, which are wheels with steel & rubber fingers, set nearly close enough to mesh, set at an angle, and make weeding of root crops such as carrots, etc. totally weed free., running the cultivator through every 4-5 days. A bit pricey for me, for the amount I grow of those vegetables, being they run near $500, for a set of them.

This may not be your cup of tea, but the leaf mulch has worked well for me, for the past 5 years. And we've been gardening with the 2-wheelers since the mid 50's, as far as cultivating. Old hat gardening for me, a whole new frontier for others.

I'll attach a few more pics of my setups. They aren't trailer queens, but run like sewing machines. They earn their keep here.

I know this is dated but I built one a few years back. Much better than weeding. My parents quit gardening after about 2 years of use. Guess I aight to sell it.

I know this is dated but I built one a few years back. Much better than weeding. My parents quit gardening after about 2 years of use. Guess I aight to sell it.

Well how much?

Mulch isn't that hard to spread. Seems like a waste of money unless you're spreading hundreds of tons a year.