ScottRW
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When your tobacco is all harvested. And you are cleaning up your tobacco patch for spring planting, what do you do with the roots, till/grind/plow them into the ground or pull them out with the stalk ?
Same here. I like to plow in early autumn, so that winter freeze somehow sterilizes the soil. Just pull the roots, shake away dirt, and burn them down to ashes. Use the ashes to fertilize.I pulled mine, shook most of the dirt off and burned them.
That’s why I burn everything, fear of diseases.I do wonder if tiling it in would perpetuate a disease cycle.
That is the best thing to do if you have any diseases present. I till all mine in with a 3 point tiller and tractor in the fall. Then do it over again in early spring. By planting time is is all broken down to nothing. I heat sterilize all my compost that is used in the greenhouse, mostly to eliminate any weed seed. But if you have disease problem of any kind, I would heat sterilize it before putting it back in the garden.I pulled mine, shook most of the dirt off and burned them.