Market Farming

[Allan Balliett <igg AT igg.com>]

Are you talking row covers or greenhouse here?
Where do you get your  shade cloth?

Thanks

-Allan

> I find the best results come from removing the plastic and covering
> with 40% shade cloth,
> I get the advantage of natural rainfall and less water stress and a
> good 10* lower temp on
> hottest days,and you don't get the intense heat buildup on the
> plants, you can use 50%
> shade but its seems too dark and the temps are not much cooler,
> remove shade on extended
> cloudy days.
> Sunny Meadow Farm
> Bridgeton, NJ.
>
> Windwalker wrote:
>
> >  Since lettuce has always been one of our trademark products (and favorites)
> >  I am pleased to report that I cut lettuce yesterday from our hoop house that
> >  has withstood 100º weather for a prolong period and is still highly edible
> >  and equally as important beautiful.  The variety is rouge grenoblaise from
> >  Pinetree Seeds.  In their catalog it say that it stands for 45 days without
> >  bolting, which I took with a grain of salt but decided to try it anyway.  I
> >  even cut one head that had started bolting and we ate it last night, no
> >  bitterness.
> >
> >  Our hoop house has shade cloth on it which reduces the color development
> >  somewhat but this lettuce has a beautiful iridescent quality about it and a
> >  tinge of red.  Definitely worth a try.  I started these, redina (our
> >  favorite) and vulcan (second favorite) on May 1 and transplanted them into
> >  the hoop house on May 23.  I started cutting them around the middle of June
> >  and had a steady supply of head lettuce for market until last week.  I could
> >  have cut some but didn't thinking that from all the heat it was probably
> >  bitter and not worth wasting time.  I'll see what I have to cut today.
> >  Lettuce this late in July should be good for about $3 a head at our market.
> >
> >  These are the first Pinetree lettuce seeds I've used and the germination
> >  isn't as good as Johnny's.  I actually tested redina from both sources and
> >  Johnny's was quite a bit better for germination.  I don't know why that
> >  would be.
> >
> >  joan vibert
> >  ottawa, kansas
> >
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