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  • From: "Elaine Granata" <elainegranata AT msn.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Market-farming] rain rain go away
  • Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2009 21:38:01 -0600

I'm beyond myself with rain in Denver, too. Can't work the soil to get the tomatoes and peppers in -- or hill the potatoes!! Hail today for the first time with all the rain-- got the spinach, but the row covers did their job on the stuff that was covered. The thistle is thriving, too and the forcast is for a week of rain showers/storms every day. Arrrgghh!

Elaine
Denver
----- Original Message ----- From: "Allan Balliett" <aballiett AT frontiernet.net>
To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 07, 2009 7:28 PM
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Hilling Early Potatoes Late


It's funny. I saw my first snails in the garden this year. Nice fat
ones in the favas. And then I saw a thing like a one-sided razor clam
on the fence. My son tells me he's been seeing a lot of them, in
empty water buckets and such. I don't think I've seen that mollusk
before. And, yes, there are big slugs moving into most everything
now... Allan in WV

No solution on the potatoes Allan, except ours are not even in the ground
yet!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm so sick of rain I don't know what to do...we're getting
it every day...and not just a little. Last week we had hail that finished
off this planting of spinach and all of our lettuce, damaged other crops but
they will recover. Didn't even have enough to warrant the trek to market.
And omg, the slugs, these things are HUMONGOUS....who knows a good market
for slugs???????

Liz
Horseshoe Gardens

-----Original Message-----
From: market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Allan
Balliett
Sent: Sunday, June 07, 2009 6:05 PM
To: Market Farming
Subject: [Market-farming] Hilling Early Potatoes Late

It's been a crazy season here in the mid-Atlantic so far with more days lost
to rain this season that I remember having ever happened before.

I'm WAY behind on most everything. For about a month now it's been too wet
to hill the potatoes abd at $5 a bale, straw isn't an option.

I have the following varieties planted, probably 600 pounds of each:

Yukon
Kennebec
Red Pontiac
Red Norland
Russet
irish Cobbler
katcdin ("phonetic" spelling)

I'm going to try to find some mulch hay to cover the spuds this week.

The plants are tall and beautiful

All the seeds were planted shallowly.

IT's quite likely that if I don't get some hilling or covering done, I won't
get many potatoes this year.

Most of these potates were in the ground by April 1

The Cobblers and Katcdin have nice big blooms on them right now.

Do you think I'll be wasting my time to try to mulch or hill the potatoes
now?

Thanks

-Allan in WV
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