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  • From: "Franklin W. Davis" <Parsons2 AT attbi.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] geese and asparagus
  • Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 18:03:41 -0500

Hi Leigh...many years ago I knew a man that grew asparagus on a commercial
scale on Cape Cod. He said he used salt on his beds to kill weeds...but
can't recall how it was done. Franklin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Leigh Hauter" <lh AT pressroom.com>
To: <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 8:40 AM
Subject: [Market-farming] geese and asparagus


> We put in 750 asparagus roots this spring for our future csa
> shareholders. Of course weeding (isn't it always) a concern.
>
> Recently I was looking around for hatching eggs for my grandson's
> school project. Since I don't need more chickens I was thinking about
> turkey or goose eggs. Upon reading about geese I realized that they
> were used for weeding things like strawberries, but I didn't see any
> mention of asparagus.
>
> So, the question is, if my grandson hatched out a couple dozen goose
> eggs, could I put the geese (when they are eventually returned to the
> farm) out with the asparagus to attack the weeds? And would they
> also attack the asparagus?
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