[Market-farming] pH testers

breck bcarden at breckinridgegroup.com
Tue May 13 14:43:25 EDT 2008


Alison,

Thanks for the heads-up on the drainage issue. I will be putting up two 50'
mobile tunnels this year and plan on putting a shallow ditch, sown in white
clover, around both double sites. I sure wish I had them up this year so I
wouldn't be trying to hold all my transplants. It'll be a month or so, if it
will dry out soon, away from any sales. Thank goodness for some asparagus
beds or I would have nothing to-date. I am expanding my asparagus production
this year, but from seed, so it will be awhile before there is much
production.

If I lived closer I would come buy some of your fine produce.

 

Breck 

Breck Carden

Carden's Garden

Crestwood, KY 40014

 

 

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From: market-farming-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:market-farming-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Wiediger,
Alison
Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 1:21 PM
To: Market Farming
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] pH testers

 

Hi Breck!

 

Tunnels help quite a bit in wet weather, but since we didn't know to install
drainage when we built them (not many were even in existence then and we
were just stumbling along in a new way to grow, kinda on our own), not as
much as they could.  With proper drainage, they would be awesome.
Unfortunately, retro-fitting them is a labor-intensive job we haven't yet
accomplished.

 

But, even with the challenges, we have tomatoes over 3 feet tall with large
fruits, cherry tomato plants even larger and closer to sales, cucumbers,
swiss chard, broccoli, lettuce,strawberries and mesclun, and zinnias,
cosmos, ageratum, sweet peas snapdragons, campanula and scented basils to
cut for bouquets.  A friend of ours also has snap/snow peas, squash,
potatoes close, etc.  None of that would be happening outdoors.  

 

Alison

 

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From: market-farming-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:market-farming-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of breck
Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 11:14 AM
To: 'Market Farming'
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] pH testers

Allison, your positive outlook is amazing! I am located close enough to you,
that I too can't catch a break with the rain. I prefer to whine and carp
instead.

 

How much help are your tunnels when the ground is soaked? Have you trenched
around them to lower the water table? Does the lack of wind and sun work
negatively with tunnels?

 

I really enjoyed your book on tunnels.

 

FarmerBreck

Breck Carden

Carden's Garden

Crestwood, KY 40014

 

 

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From: market-farming-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:market-farming-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Wiediger,
Alison
Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 8:54 AM
To: Market Farming
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] pH testers

 

Ah, but isn't this one of the big reasons we all do market growing (besides
the big money of course!) ?  The everlasting chase after the perfect season.
The more we know, the more we want/need to know and no season is the same.
What a challenge!  What fun!  (Well, most of the time.  I do wish it would
stop raining long enough to get some crops in the ground)

 

Alison Wiediger, Au Naturel Farm


  In my time of growing of most plants in zone 5, I chase after the most
exquisite science possible and often default to the voodoo that works.
Sigh....Shawnee zone 5, and after 30 years of cajoling the plants, still
perplexed.

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