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  • From: rbclo AT att.net
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  • Subject: [Market-farming] floppy cukes
  • Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 22:47:03 +0000

A light coating of mineral oil is all the wax you need on a cuke to stop
drying out. Just wipe it on with a rag that is damp with the oil. I have
noticed that the burbless types seem to lose their texture quicker than
slicers or picklers. What is your variety Judy?

Ben in Maryland.
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Subject: [Market-farming] soil block
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http://www.ladbrooke.co.uk/frame.htm A lot of soil blocker info and below
is an old formula from a search engine.

Here it is:
from the "New Organic Grower" 1989, by Eliot Coleman
Chelsea Green Pub. Vo.
P.O. Box 130
Post Mills, Vermont, 05058

I highly recommend this book _and_ "How To Grow More Vegetables" by Jphn
Jeavons, 10 Speed Press

Pages 136-137

Blocking Mix Recipe
-------------------

2 buckets black peat
1/2 cup lime. MIX
2 buckets coarse sand
2 buckets brown peat
3 cups base fertilizer *, MIX
1 bucket soil
1 bucket compost
Mix all ingredients together thoroughly

Mini-Block Recipe
-----------------

16 parts brown peat
1/2 part colloidal phosphate
1/2 part greensand
4 parts cpmpost (well decomposed)

* his recommendation for fertilizer for the garden is:
limestone rock (for pH adjustment - use as needed)
Greensand Marl (New Jersey Greensand) - potash and minerals
Rock Phosphate or Colloidal Phosphate
Rock Powders or rock dusts, available from rock quarries - supplies minerals
Compost
Manure
Micronutrients should be available in sufficient quantities with
careful pH monitoring and application of rock powders and compost






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