Healthy soil and sustainable growing

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

No we don't. To me, growing conditions and methods have a lot more to do with 
yield than particular varieties, and all that varies from year to year. We 
don't keep exact records on variety sales any more since we can see what 
sells well, and that varies a lot from week to week.  We do try to avoid 
crops that take a lot of space for the revenue they bring, like melons.

Actually yield isn't our first priority but flavor and quality which keeps 
repeat customers coming back when there's a lot of competition (samples 
help), and one of our markets has 60-70 produce sellers competing. We usually 
price higher than some others but discount some for larger purchases or the 
disabled, which would skew sales records. Besides we stay busy enough selling 
and restocking the tables.

The more important part is guessing how much of each type will sell over the 
season, and planting for continuous harvest the whole time. You don't want to 
have way more of one thing than you can sell in two weeks and then little or 
none of that the rest of the time.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 11/23/2010 at 7:50 AM pbunch@cox.net wrote:

>Paul:
>
>Do you keep yield and sales records per variety?
>
>Phil Bunch
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