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- From: flowers AT rt66.com (Wilderness Flowers)
- To: "market farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Subject: Re: Tomatoes
- Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 16:24:16 -0700 (MST)
and your supplier is ?? always looking for a better price... i think marvel
plastic in pa has a pretty good price (7175641478)
martin
>Interesting -
>just drove the truck out through the 15 inches of new snow and there in the
>mailbox was a Johnny's newsletter about tomatoes with an article on
>stringing tomatoes.
>
>The newsletter also pushed red plastic. I was interested in anyone's
>experience with red plastic. I used it last year (my supplier sells it for
>a lot cheaper than Johnny's)) and got the earliest tomatoes ever ( July 4th
>tomatoes around here is considered a true sign of great farming practices
>and a lot of luck). We had tomatoes by the last week of June.
>
>However, our tomatoes also stopped growing two weeks early. We didn't grow
>all tomatoes through the red stuff, but it seems they were always close
>enough to affect the production.
>
>Anyone else have any experience with red plastic. I intend to use it again
>on my early tomatoes, but I intend to grow my later tomatoes on another
>part of the farm, far away from red plastic.
>
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Martin Connaughton
Wilderness Flowers
223 North Guadalupe St. pmb # 159
Santa Fe, NM 87501
zone 3-4-5 depending on mother nature .. zone 5 this year and no snow
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Tomatoes,
Leigh Hauter, 01/25/2000
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: Tomatoes, Wilderness Flowers, 01/25/2000
- Re: Tomatoes, Wilderness Flowers, 01/25/2000
- Re: Tomatoes, Leigh Hauter, 01/25/2000
- Re: Tomatoes, Leigh Hauter, 01/25/2000
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