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  • From: JEROME SHIELD <tools AT amaonline.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: RE: water wheel planters
  • Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 11:11:41 -0500


I have looked at transplants and like Willie we hand transplant because we
need to stagger our plantings for full season production. As far as watering
I use Netafim Ram tubing and bypass the pressure regulator which triples the
output and seems to work fine.

Jerome Shield

Cheryl Rogowski wrote:

> We use a water wheel transplanter on plastic with great success. Our
> soil is fairly soft - black dirt. We have found the plants seem to take
> the shock better and the direct application of water helps them
> especially when it's as dry as it has been.
>
> Cheryl
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