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  • From: "Bill Shoemaker" <wshoemak AT inil.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Travellers vs. stationary guns
  • Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 08:18:34 -0500

In our small plot work at the Research Center, we use a cub tractor with some belly-mounted cultivating knives to undercut our onions. They sit for a couple of warm sunny days to cure, then we harvest. For potatoes we also use a middle buster (lister plow).

Bill

> > > On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 04:12:11PM -0600, Bill Bradshaw wrote: > > Paul, tell me about your digger, what kind , how it works, would it work for onions? Just wondering Bill > > Bill, I have fractional ownership in a small potato digger. I think it > would be overkill for onions. Don't you just pull your onions up by > their stalks? For the potato digger to stand any chance of working on > potatoes, the crop has to be very clean and the potato top growth has to > be removed. I have given up on using it; I continue to plow them out > with a middle buster. > > -- > Willie, ONWARD! Through the fog! > http://counter.li.org Linux registered user #228836 since 1995 > Debian3.1/GNU/Linux system uptime 275 days 13 hours 51 minutes > _______________________________________________ > Market-farming mailing list > Market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org > http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/market-farming > >


William H. Shoemaker
Sr Research Specialist, Food Crops
St Charles Horticulture Research Center
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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