Market Farming

[Mmneedham AT aol.com]

In a message dated 06/08/2001 10:04:02 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
waldenfarm AT sprintmail.com writes:


> Once the seeds start to mature, the plant will stop blooming and put most of 
> its
> nutrients into seed production.  This means that we can keep plants
> fruiting all season (or until they die) by harvesting fruit before seeds
> start to mature.  (True for annuals.)


Actually, I think it gets a bit more complicated than that.  I think the 
example given was basil, but I'll have to look in my notes to see.  At any 
rate, it seems to me the flowering and seed-setting in the example given to 
me was determined by day length, so the grower had to work around the summer 
solstice in order to take advantage of this trait.  Sorry this is so vague...

Marj