[Market-farming] rain rain go away
Elaine Granata
elainegranata at msn.com
Sun Jun 7 23:38:01 EDT 2009
I'm beyond myself with rain in Denver, too. Can't work the soil to get the
tomatoes and peppers in -- or hill the potatoes!! Hail today for the first
time with all the rain-- got the spinach, but the row covers did their job
on the stuff that was covered. The thistle is thriving, too and the forcast
is for a week of rain showers/storms every day. Arrrgghh!
Elaine
Denver
----- Original Message -----
From: "Allan Balliett" <aballiett at frontiernet.net>
To: "Market Farming" <market-farming at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 07, 2009 7:28 PM
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Hilling Early Potatoes Late
> It's funny. I saw my first snails in the garden this year. Nice fat
> ones in the favas. And then I saw a thing like a one-sided razor clam
> on the fence. My son tells me he's been seeing a lot of them, in
> empty water buckets and such. I don't think I've seen that mollusk
> before. And, yes, there are big slugs moving into most everything
> now... Allan in WV
>
>>No solution on the potatoes Allan, except ours are not even in the ground
>>yet!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm so sick of rain I don't know what to do...we're
>>getting
>>it every day...and not just a little. Last week we had hail that finished
>>off this planting of spinach and all of our lettuce, damaged other crops
>>but
>>they will recover. Didn't even have enough to warrant the trek to market.
>>And omg, the slugs, these things are HUMONGOUS....who knows a good market
>>for slugs???????
>>
>>Liz
>>Horseshoe Gardens
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: market-farming-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org
>>[mailto:market-farming-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Allan
>>Balliett
>>Sent: Sunday, June 07, 2009 6:05 PM
>>To: Market Farming
>>Subject: [Market-farming] Hilling Early Potatoes Late
>>
>>It's been a crazy season here in the mid-Atlantic so far with more days
>>lost
>>to rain this season that I remember having ever happened before.
>>
>>I'm WAY behind on most everything. For about a month now it's been too wet
>>to hill the potatoes abd at $5 a bale, straw isn't an option.
>>
>>I have the following varieties planted, probably 600 pounds of each:
>>
>>Yukon
>>Kennebec
>>Red Pontiac
>>Red Norland
>>Russet
>>irish Cobbler
>>katcdin ("phonetic" spelling)
>>
>>I'm going to try to find some mulch hay to cover the spuds this week.
>>
>>The plants are tall and beautiful
>>
>>All the seeds were planted shallowly.
>>
>>IT's quite likely that if I don't get some hilling or covering done, I
>>won't
>>get many potatoes this year.
>>
>>Most of these potates were in the ground by April 1
>>
>>The Cobblers and Katcdin have nice big blooms on them right now.
>>
>>Do you think I'll be wasting my time to try to mulch or hill the potatoes
>>now?
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>-Allan in WV
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