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  • From: charlie taplin <vthick43 AT gmail.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Potato furrows and eggplant (separately)
  • Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2012 10:26:26 -0500

Pam,
Like Kurt said hill the potaoes well, just leave leaves showing(75%) each time you
hill, and as he said loosen up the soil between rows. We in our system can run a small tractor
& rorotiller between rows. We plant 2 acs. with 7 different varities and a new one this year
called Kovac grew some very large spuds and some were green, will do a better job next
year. This farm at one time years ago grew 2000 bu. , My father-in-law (in a wheelchair)
is my mentor.

On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 5:16 PM, <clearviewfarm AT bluefrog.com> wrote:
Pam,

If you can, use your discs to "hill" the potatoes as they grow.  You may want to cultivate first, to loosen the soil, then use the discs to throw dirt up around the base of the plants to allow them to set spuds in that soil.

I had trouble with eggplant not setting fruit in the hot weather, too.  I have to wonder if more irrigation water would help. 

Kurt Forman
Clearview Farm
Palmyra, NY 14522
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

--- pam AT twinoaks.org wrote:

From: Pam Twin Oaks <pam AT twinoaks.org>
To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: [Market-farming] Potato furrows and eggplant (separately)
Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2012 17:08:23 -0400


Two things I'd like to hear the collective wisdom on:

What do folks use to make furrows for potatoes? We used walk-behind rototillers with attachments for years. This past year we got a set-up for the tractor, but it didn't work well. It used a set of discs arranged to push soil to each side. But it wasn't deep enough and we got a lot of green potatoes. I've heard of some people using a middle-buster - is this the best thing? (If so, I'm putting two on my wish list right now!)

Second, can anyone recommend a good heat-tolerant eggplant variety? We like large traditional shape purple-black ones. We love Nadia, but this summer it refused to set fruit for a while. Are there "hot-set" eggplants? I need a reliable productive one, probably a hybrid.

Pam, twin oaks Community, central Virginia, zone 7a
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Pam Dawling
 
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