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Photos 1-5. Melon plants of the same age under each of the 5 treatments. Photos taken at the field day on June 13, 24 days after transplanting. (Photos in order are of bare soil, black mulch with no cover, black mulch with row cover, red mulch with no cover, and red mulch with row cover.)

Photo 6. Mulch layer in action.

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Photos 7-10. Eggplants of the same age under four of the treatments. Photos taken on June 24, 35 days after transplanting. (Photos in order are of bare soil, black mulch with no cover, black mulch with row cover, and red mulch with row cover.)

Photo 11. Newly laid plastic mulch before transplanting.

Photo 12. Comparison of eggplant on red mulch with no row cover and on bare soil. The eggplants are in the two center rows with the red mulch in the foreground of the left row and the bare dirt to the right.

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Photos 13-15. Melon plants of the same age under each of the 5 treatments. Photos taken on June 24, 35 days after transplanting. Photo 13 shows red mulch with row cover to the left and red mulch with no cover to the right. Photo 14 shows black mulch with row cover to the left and black mulch with no cover to the right. Photo 15 shows melons grown on bare dirt down the center of the photo.

Photo 16. Tomato plants of the same age on each of the 5 treatments. Photos taken on June 24, 35 days after transplanting. The center 5 rows of the photo show in order red mulch with no cover, red mulch with row cover, black mulch with row cover, black mulch with no cover, bare soil. The different size of the plants can be observed in the photo.

Photos 17 and 18. Tomato plants on August 4. The plants had gotten so large that there were no longer rows between the plants and it was difficult to walk among the plants.