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  • From: Willie McKemie <mckemie AT austinfarm.org>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] What are your best crops and/or products?
  • Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 20:41:08 -0600

On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 09:28:38PM -0500, Allan Balliett wrote:
> >We are having great success right now selling washed and packaged
> >(10oz) spinach to grocery stores.
>
> Willie - What are you getting for your spinach?
>
Grocery stores pay $1.25 and sell for $2.49-$2.99. I sell at farmers
markets for $2. Some grocery stores get 1 24 bag box at a time, some
get 40.

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Subject: [Market-farming] Planting sweetpotato
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This is in reply to Barbara Rosholdt's question about sweetpotatoes.

Normally you don't plant sweetpotatoes, although it's been done
before. You can produce your own slips by just sprouting a
sweetpotato in water on the window sill, or in a pot (they like it
warm) and pulling off the slips when the planting time comes. For
your 100' of bed you might want a couple hundred slips, so you'd need
a few pots, but there's probably still time. Of course, you can also
grow the slips out in the garden, and there's plenty of time for
that.

Virginia Tech has some information about spacing and what you can
expect for yields. [http://www.ext.vt.edu/pubs/envirohort/426-331/426-
331guide.html.] Their website has a list of local extension offices,
and they might be some help to you too: http://www.ext.vt.edu/

ATTRA has a pretty good document on organic sweetpotato production,
which is like a little short course on sweetpotato. You can find out
how to produce your own slips there. They also list alternative
commercial sources of planting material, some of which might give you
better quality than you've gotten from your previous supplier.
http://attra.ncat.org/attra-pub/sweetpotato.html

Best of luck.


Ted Carey
Horticultural Food Crop Specialist
K-State Research and Extension Center - Olathe
35125 W 135th St
Olathe, KS 66061
Tel/fax: 913-438-8762
Tel: 913-322-0937
Mobile: 913-645-0007
email: tcarey AT oznet.ksu.edu




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