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  • From: "TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>
  • To: emitch@att.net, livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Shattering Myths: ?Can sustainable agriculture feed the world?
  • Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:26:23 -0700


Mitch this applies to home growing as well since what we don't grow will
cost us to buy.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net
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TOP 15 VEGETABLES IN ECONOMIC VALUE & intensive spacing guide
http://www.ext.vt.edu/pubs/envirohort/426-335/426-335.html#L3
http://cals.arizona.edu/pubs/garden/mg/vegetable/intensive.html

Tomatoes
Beets
Green bunching onions
Carrots
Leaf lettuce
Cucumbers
Turnip (greens + roots)
Peppers
Summer squash
Broccoli
Edible podded peas
Head lettuce
Onion storage bulbs
Swiss chard
Beans (pole, bush)

1 Values based on pounds produced per square foot, retail value per pound
at harvest time, and length of time in the garden.


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On 1/15/2008 at 5:40 PM E. E. Mitchamore Jr wrote:
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>True, Tomatoes are the #1 market garden item, but they don't offer many
>calories. I've never eaten a Turnip, or many other root crops. Beans,
>squash, greens, tomatoes. Corn is not a good use of space. What else?
>
>E. E. "Mitch" Mitchamore
>www.hillcountrynatives.biz







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