Getting down with brown

摘要

Study shows plastic mulch color might provide strawberry growers with happy medium between clear and black. The traditional black plastic mulch used by strawberry growers may not always be the best performing color. According to a study performed this year on the Chandler variety by Richard Molinar and Michael Yang of University of California Cooperative Extension in Fresno County, brown mulch provided the greatest yields and the highest brix of any of the eight colors of mulches in the trial.