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  • From: "Alan Whitaker" <awhitaker AT greenlynk.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Fellow Alabamian
  • Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 12:54:58 -0500

Adriana,

We have in the past grown most vegetables that will sell here in the deep
South. Peas, butterbeans, collards, okra, tomatoes, squash, kale, turnips,
corn, etc, etc............Try to grow the purplehull peas as a legume
rotation, but have had terrible deer pressure. I'm hoping to fence 3 acres
this year just for that. I'm not certified, but am currently converting to
bio-dynamics. I've got to work on this soil somehow. If I cultivate, my
organic matter is gone in two months. My soil is sandy and was used for
peanuts and tobacco for years.

If you'd like, we can take this off list

awhitaker AT greenlynk.com


----- Original Message -----
From: adriana <gutierrez-lagatta AT charter.net>
To: <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 12:32 PM
Subject: [Market-farming] Fellow Alabamian


> Allan,
> What do you grow on those 18 acres and are you certified organic?
>
> Adriana Gutierrez
> Birmingham
>
> > we are is south Alabama. We have a lot of trouble with tall crabgrass
and
> > Bermuda grass. We were growing 18 acres of vegetables, but have given
in
> to
> > the Bermuda on 9 acres. The other 9, I'm going to fight it till it or I
> > expire!
>
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