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  • From: Richard Stewart <rstewart AT zoomtown.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Starting onions in ground
  • Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2013 08:33:19 -0500

This year I am going to try to increase our radish production to a much larger scale and be a supplier for a couple small distributors and maybe even WFM.  I am going to try and use our grain drill to plan them.  Its 15' across with 7.5" spacing.  We will be plugging up several hole for foot paths and actually been thinking about place partitions in so we could plant three types of similar sized seed but of different cultivars of radish.Anyone else try to do this?

I am more curious about settings than anything else.  I know in the abstract it will work but I am worried about planting depth and population.  I was hoping to plant tillage radish early this past fall but we had some issues that prevented us from doing.  I was hoping to cut my teeth on that but obviously that did not happen.  :)



Richard Stewart
Carriage House Farm
North Bend, Ohio

An Ohio Century Farm Est. 1855

(513) 967-1106

On Jan 3, 2013, at 7:34 AM, Allan Balliett wrote:

I need to start onions also. I just want to grow plants in the hoop to plant out in March or April for harvesting as 'spring onions' in June and July. 

Can someone recommend varieties and seed sources they've had success with?  I'm at the Washington DC latitude.

Thanks 

-Allan in WV


On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 4:08 AM, Lucy Owsley <boulderbelt AT embarqmail.com> wrote:

On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 7:59 PM, Chris Corbin <corbincdc AT gmail.com> wrote:
Hello all,
We are researching onion transplant possibilities for this season. We were wondering if anyone has had experience with direct seeding them in the ground in a high tunnel for transplant into the field.
 Did you put down potting soil first or just plant right into the ground?

Thanks

Chris Corbin


We have done this and simply plant the seeds straight into  the soil, generally on October though we have planted as late as November.If you try to plant outside now the seeds will sit there until spring and you don't get any advantage over starting indoors under lights. But starting the previous fall should give you really big seedlings for spring planting

 


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