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Re: [Market-farming] How to package greens for sale?
- From: "Michaele Blakely" <mjb AT premier1.net>
- To: <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] How to package greens for sale?
- Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2003 14:18:26 -0800
Lucy,
Putting greens in just plain water will crisp greens up quite nicely. It
would be interesting to do a test to see if adding salt to the water makes
much of a difference in either the time it takes the greens to crisp up, or
the length of time the greens actually last.
Greens that have wilted a bit during the harvesting process get soaked till
they are turgid once again and then chilled.
The only time we use salt is with broccoli if we have a
heavy case of cabbage worms.
Michaele
Growing Things
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lucy Goodman" <goodows AT infinet.com>
To: <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 18, 2003 12:56 PM
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] How to package greens for sale?
> Okay I may have it backwards (I took this class about 23 years ago!) but
> salt water works very well at refreshing greens, none the less. Try
> taking greens that have wilted and put them in salt water. They will get
crisp.
>
>
> Eric Pillemer wrote:
> >
> > Unfortunately what you learned in high school physics class is wrong.
Water
> > moves by osmosis from regions of higher water concentration to regions
of
> > lower wqter concentration.Thus water will move from the plant cells
outward
> > into a salt solution, rather than the reverse. This is the basis for
salting
> > foods before pickling them,. which draws the water from the plant cell.
Thus
> > using salt water to refresh greens would actually remove wter from the
plant
> > rather than add water!
> >
> >
> Lucy Goodman
> New Paris, OH
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[Market-farming] How to package greens for sale?,
J V, 01/16/2003
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Re: [Market-farming] How to package greens for sale?,
Willie McKemie, 01/16/2003
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Re: [Market-farming] How to package greens for sale?,
Lucy Goodman, 01/16/2003
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Re: [Market-farming] How to package greens for sale?,
Elaine Granata, 01/17/2003
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Re: [Market-farming] How to package greens for sale?,
Lucy Goodman, 01/18/2003
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Re: [Market-farming] How to package greens for sale?,
Eric Pillemer, 01/18/2003
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Re: [Market-farming] How to package greens for sale?,
Lucy Goodman, 01/18/2003
- Re: [Market-farming] How to package greens for sale?, Michaele Blakely, 01/18/2003
- RE: [Market-farming] How to package greens for sale?, bob, 01/18/2003
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Re: [Market-farming] How to package greens for sale?,
Lucy Goodman, 01/18/2003
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Re: [Market-farming] How to package greens for sale?,
Eric Pillemer, 01/18/2003
- Re: [Market-farming] How to package greens for sale?, Elaine Granata, 01/18/2003
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Re: [Market-farming] How to package greens for sale?,
Lucy Goodman, 01/18/2003
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Re: [Market-farming] How to package greens for sale?,
Elaine Granata, 01/17/2003
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Re: [Market-farming] How to package greens for sale?,
Lucy Goodman, 01/16/2003
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Re: [Market-farming] How to package greens for sale?,
Willie McKemie, 01/16/2003
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: [Market-farming] How to package greens for sale?, gwynn and robert, 01/19/2003
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