Market Farming

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At 05:20 PM 02/15/2000 -0800, Suzy wrote:
>>It's also been suggested to me that even in a raised bed organic 
>>garden it makes the most sense to make succession plantings from 
>>cuttings, rather than from seeds.
>
>Allan, anything in the mint family like basil will be large and 
>marketable faster from cuttings than from seed. I've not produced a 
>lot of basil cuttings at one time to plant on a commercial scale. 
>It's wonderful to drop a bunch of cuttings into a large vase and 10 
>days later you have roots. In my experience potting up the fragile 
>water roots can be time consuming so you would have to weigh that 
>against putting a seed in the ground or pot and not having to 
>carefully transplant cuttings.

What you need is an aquaponics system set-up :>)  When we've worked from
cuttings, we just plop them into the gravel beds.  Generally, we'll plant as
close (or closer) than you would in a cutting tray and move into proper
spacing after rooting, but moving from one gravel bed (tightly space for
rooting) into another for grow-out is a fairly simple operation; and the
gravel just falls away from the root system when you move it with very
little transplant shock.

Just a thought, and you know I'm promoting aquaponics as well -- not just
our "variety" of system -- there are many potential ways to do it.  

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