Market Farming

["five springs farm" <fsfarm AT mufn.org>]

We use shade cloth over regular growing beds of lettuce with good
results...a variety of % shade and sizes from Peaceful Valley Farm Supply in
California (write for address/phone if you need it, though they are online
and easy to find I think)

Jim and Jo
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----- Original Message -----
From: Allan Balliett <igg AT igg.com>
To: market farming <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 12:14 PM
Subject: Re: lettuce


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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