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  • From: "Nan Johnson" <nan AT olemiss.edu>
  • To: "marketfarming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Market-farming] speedling trays
  • Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 12:16:16 -0600

For what it's worth:
We use them here to produce thousands (38,000 in past 4years, only 22,400 this year) of seedings of medicinal plants (so far catnip, echinacea, scutellaria, boneset [Eupatorium perfoliatum] and joe pye weed [E. maculatum] ).
 
On the advice of both botanists, I have never sterilized them, just cleaned with water and stored away........we have not had any problems due to disease, so maybe just lucky also?
 
One comment  - sure is hard to get the plugs out - we have to poke each opening on the bottom with nails - we use a board with nails spaced so we plop each tray down once or twice on top, but can't imagine that amount of labor if we had to make a profit on each seedling......
 
nan johnson, medicinal plant garden, national center for natural products research, oxford,ms   zone 7


  • [Market-farming] speedling trays, Nan Johnson, 03/26/2005

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