Skip to Content.
Sympa Menu

market-farming - Re: [Market-farming] double cropped potatoes

market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org

Subject: Market Farming

List archive

Chronological Thread  
  • From: Shawnee Flowerfarmer <farmingflowers AT hotmail.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] double cropped potatoes
  • Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 19:27:44 -0500




David,  
  Your  relay planting method is intriguing.  I manage an 1850's Heritage Garden with a verrrrry small budget; all plant varieties must be pre-1850, so every season I am trying to save seed for the next....and raise enough crop to feed volunteers and perhaps, have some harvest to support our local Plant-a-Row for the Hungry program and also sell to fund next year's garden. 
 
 Sigh....that's many  economic responsibilities to wrestle out of a quarter acre historical garden . 
 
  Plus, available greenhouse space varies considerably as I piggyback the Heritage Garden seedlings onto whatever gozillion crops I am raising for the nursery where I finance my life.
 
I will try your system to stretch my potato crop/seed next season.  (Plus, we have better success when I have actual seedlings for volunteers to plant.  There is always a gap between the enthusiasm of optimistic volunteers and their horticultural knowledge.)
 
Thanks for the details,
Shawnee, zone 5, but it's been July weather since late April. 
 
 (ps-have I punctuated correctly and so on?  Hee hee....my, but you did rattle up the list-serve, didn't you?  Cool.  Still,  I agree.  When it's important to communicate something, one strives to be a credit to the teachers who emphasized the infrastructure of our language.)


PC Magazine’s 2007 editors’ choice for best web mail—award-winning Windows Live Hotmail. Check it out!


Archive powered by MHonArc 2.6.24.

Top of Page