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  • From: Willie McKemie <mf AT austinfarm.org>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Why do It II
  • Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 07:47:26 -0500

> > Carrots? Hard to grow, but a fall grown carrot is delicious around here
> > and in incredible demand. Maybe I have to limit the amount per customer,

I used to grow about 10 acres of spinach over our zone 8 winters and
have experimented planting other crops with the spinach. Carrots have
been most successful for me. Carrot seed is quite small compared to
spinach, but I just put some in the hopper and hope it gets spread
out. The carrots, of course, do not do as well as they might with no
competition, but there ARE some carrots to pull after the spinach is
gone. The spinach competition does not seem to much affect the size of
the carrot roots. I pick individual spinach leaves, so the companion
crop does not hinder harvest of spinach.

Onions can do fairly well planted with spinach, but the stands seem
poor. But, I have trouble getting good stands of ANY direct seeded
onions. Chard also can provide an "after the spinach is gone" crop.
This year though, my chard has spider mites I think it picked up from
spinach. Beets planted with spinach have not done well for me.

All this is for spinach (and companion crops) planted November through
February and harvested starting in December or January.

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