Market Farming

[robert schuler <sunnfarm AT bellatlantic.net>]

I use a 14x132'x7' tall perennial holding house covered with three pieces of 
22x50' sheets
of poly shade cloth, you can order custom cut lengths of shade cloth from any 
greenhouse
supply, the material is light and can be shipped UPS, or you can get it from 
some truck
tarp companies found in most cities, the stuff is expensive but lasts 
forever, I find it
useful to set up a portable hoop house with shade in the field as a cool 
packing area.
Sunny Meadow Farm
Bridgeton, NJ.

Allan Balliett wrote:

> 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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