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  • From: "Susan Houghton" <susangivingtree AT earthlink.net>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Cell Pack Rant.
  • Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2008 15:19:12 -0500


For most of our transplants, we are using soil blocks instead of cell
packs. We made a simple box out of recycled wood - 11 x 21 or about the
same size as most "open" flats and put hardware cloth on the bottom of
them. They hold 60 cells about 3/4 by 3/4 by 3/4 - big enough for most of
our transplants, easy to take apart and transplant, and we don't even have
to wash them. Sturdy enough to take to the field, we often put them in a
tray with kelp and let the transplants soak it up before we plant. Some of
them have been used 3 or 4 times in a season and the first ones we made are
about 4 years old.

. I hate flats - they ae never strong enough, are not created in an
environmental fashion, blow in the wind, cut our fingers (like a paper cut)
when trying to separate them, and then have to go to the land fill.

Our boxes would also work for the larger soil blocks, and we have used them
for 3 or 4 inch pots.

Bonus is that we can use them in the fall for drying things or stacking
onions, potatoes and tomatoes, and even for washing beans or carrots off.



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  • Re: [Market-farming] Cell Pack Rant., Susan Houghton, 01/05/2008

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