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  • From: Richard Robinson <rrobinson AT nasw.org>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] wilted lettuce at market
  • Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 10:20:26 -0400

On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:12:14 GMT, cjmaness AT juno.com wrote:
> I'm cutting early in the mornings, hydro-cooling and it goes into our walk
>in
> cooler immediately. We then pack it all into ice chests and take it to
> market. We can keep it cool at market, as long as it stays in the ice
>chests.
> I've tried selling it from the ice chest with big signs on them, but people
> are shy about opening up a ice chest and grabbing a head of lettuce. So, we
> try and display. We don't sell the displayed lettuce, we pull fresh heads
>out
> of the cooler, but it's trying to keep the display looking nice that is the
> problem. It wilts, I pull it and put out a fresh head, and by the end of
> market, I've lost a lot of lettuce.

What about bringing along a couple pots of uncut lettuce as table displays?
You could probably reverse-transplant some from the field into a 4" pot
without much injury.

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Richard Robinson
http://www.nasw.org/users/rrobinson/






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