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  • From: Richard Stewart <rstewart AT zoomtown.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Planting methods for Salad mix
  • Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 09:20:21 -0400


Bill we sell our thinnings. Most upscale restaurants pay big bucks for 'em. We thin after the first true leafs set. Figure right around 5.00 to 15.00 a pound depending on where you are located and who you sell it to.

As we thin we have a clean 5 gal food bucket with spring water in it and they simply get tossed in washed and then washed quickly a second time. Nothing fancy. They get cleaned almost completely the first bucket. We do not spin or anything simply pile and bag and drop off with the rest of the order.

Richard Stewart
rstewart AT zoomtown.com



On Sep 28, 2009, at 8:29 PM, BillOhio wrote:

Breck,

I'm glad that maybe my ramblings made a little sense, at least :). Yes, I'm stripping off outer leaves, often with both hands at the same time. My mother did this 50 years ago or more, and we've kept it up. When the plants are on a 6" grid, the leaves get large enough to make it a fairly fast operation, besides suppressing weed growth as well. OTOH, we just sowed 30 types of lettuce seed in the ground and weeding/thinning is taking a lot of time this week. Sold several pounds for 50 cents per oz as baby leaf lettuce though...Different things work for different folks at different times, and that's what makes life interesting.

Kind regards,
Bill




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