A Farmer and his Rifle

Plastic mulch raised beds.

There is drip lines underneath for watering. Plants look to yet to be planted, but holes are made either manually or with another tractor tool which vegetable plants are then grown in.

This heavily reduces weeding time for crops that grow for a long time. IE)tomato, eggplant, peppers. As they simply now have nowhere to grow between the plants.

This is a fairly common practice in organic vegetable growing. Unsure about conventional but in my experience, is a lengthy process, which doesn't save too much time/money overall if at all, but things look nicely growing in them.

Ideally over the years with minimal tilling (to reduce soil turnover, keeping natural layers and bad seeds well underground), effective treelines (to reduce top soil blowing away along with fresh weed seed dropping in), and correct tools (flameweeders, tilther, etc), you rid your fields of the weed seed that has built up in them which takes about 5 years. And thus your labour is reduced while also not adding the expense of plastic, reminant picking (a lot falls apart and gets left in the field) or the machinery used to lay it.

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