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  • From: herb farmer <tradingpost@lobo.net>
  • To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Monsanto Suggests RoundUp Herbicide Treatment For Many Crops Right Before Harvest, Not Just RoundUp Ready GMOs
  • Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2014 18:54:33 -0700


It's a dilemma for us too, wanting to grow unusual or gourmet greens that don't seem to appeal to our customers. We haven't gotten into certain greens or microgreens due to lack of greenhouse bed space. We let chard go for lack of demand, along with endive, italian dandelion.
We're trying some kales etc from http://www.adaptiveseeds.com/ . They do sell. Asian greens sold as stir fry mix but their disadvantage is not good cut-and-come again like other greens.
paul

On 12/22/2014 5:34 PM, Arzeena Hamir wrote:
AAD2161E-DF5A-427A-9F8E-44C84D6C7508@shaw.ca" type="cite">We just harvested arugula, baby bok choi and mizuna from our unheated polytunnels. 

This winter's been particularly bad for greens that normally survive outside. Even the red russian kale looks miserable from repeated hard frosts and then warm rains.

Come February, I hope to be harvesting more mizuna plus claytonia from the polytunnels. Other Asian greens also grow very well here (komatsuna, giant red mustard) but our customer base isn't very multicultural and we have trouble selling some of the more unusual greens as bunching greens. We might give microgreens a try this year.


Arzeena

Amara Farm
Courtenay, BC
(250) 702-5657




On 2014-12-21, at 5:23 PM, herb farmer wrote:



Hello! I've been curious about growing in that area & wondering what greens etc suit your climate. We have a great customer at market from Vashon Island south of you.
 
paul

On 12/21/2014 5:27 PM, Arzeena Hamir wrote:
4D39EC62-3C5E-47ED-8571-2DE4EADCDA1A@shaw.ca" type="cite">It's also standard practice in potato fields here in Canada to top kill the greens before harvesting. Farmers believe the get higher yields this way and it's easier to machine harvest when the greens are dry.

Arzeena

Amara Farm
Courtenay, BC
(250) 702-5657




On 2014-12-21, at 3:07 PM, John D'hondt wrote:

Monsanto has been suggesting this for almost 20 years and afaik it has been more or less general practice for all this time at least in Ireland. More in wet years than in moderate dry years. When a grain farmer has a crop ready and it will not stop raining he could suffer a serious loss because the ripe crop will keep talking in moisture and many seeds will germinate on the plant. Kill the plant before that happens with roundup and water uptake will stop. One reason why we eat little bread or anything else with flour.
John

On 20/12/14 14:48, herb farmer wrote:
Monsanto Suggests RoundUp Herbicide Treatment For Many Crops Right Before Harvest, Not Just RoundUp Ready GMOs
http://www.cornucopia.org/2014/12/monsanto-suggests-roundup-herbicide-treatment-many-crops-right-harvest-not-just-roundup-ready-gmos/
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