Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>]

It's not a lot of greenhouse compared to commercial growers - in keeping with 
my project of growing as much as possible in the least amount of space. One 
has six 4x12 tomato beds, one has six 3x8 pepper beds, one is 24x18 for 
seedlings to transplant and culinary herbs for transplant. We can't grow year 
round in this climate without added heat which would not be cost effective. 
So what they accomplish is to add two or three months to a four month outdoor 
growing season. As it happens, our markets last through October and we don't 
waste space or labor on low profit early greens in June, and we only sell 
direct. It's all on less than 1/4 acre and it supplies two busy markets most 
of the season. Nothing original, others report large volume intensive 
production on raised beds in small spaces. But most of them have a lot 
invested up front with a favorable climate. And you have to work out your own 
methods to use the principles that work where you are.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 2/23/2010 at 8:50 AM Andeanfx wrote:

>The first new moon after the spring equinox (the new year) is not until
>April 14 so, according to that the growing season should be late on both
>ends this year.
>
>It sounds like you are getting a lot of green house area built up.  How
>much
>do you grow in them full season and how much to you start and the set out.
>I have been leaning toward covered raised beds but the thought of growing
>in
>green houses full season keeps coming to mind.
>
>
>Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken. - Oscar Wilde
>
>
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>From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>
>To: <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
>Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 7:08 AM
>Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] hybrids
>
>
>>
>> Well, we've had a solid month of cold and snow on the ground, another 6"
>> last nite and single digits. So maybe I jumped the gun pulling mulch
>back
>> from the shallot beds. Shoots in the garlic beds don't seem to mind the
>> cold. Was hoping to start framing the top on the 18'x24' pepper
>greenhouse
>> today since the last 8" finally melted, but nooooooooo. At least frozen
>> mornings this month let me finish two 3'x24' plant benches in the new
>> seedling greenhouse which got covered in Dec. My hope with that (among
>> other uses) is to have gallons of butternet & delicata to set out in may
>> and mature before the grasshopper invasion, and use crookneck or pumpkin
>> as trap crops. Last year they relieved me of having to harvest the
>squash
>> and carrots.
>>
>> paul tradingpost@lobo.net
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>> On 2/22/2010 at 11:16 PM henry walden wrote:
>>
>>>Oh ya that is a fine chili you grow, a fine chili my freind!
>>>
>>>Ed
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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