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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: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 11:11:03 -0500

Hi Bill...ayup...tnx for the warning. I wouldn't do anything till I know
more about it. Right now I only have a small patch of asparagus...but have
plans to expand in the future...maybe a pick your own setup. Let me know if
and when you glean more info. about it. Franklin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Shoemaker" <wshoemak AT inil.com>
To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 10:53 AM
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] geese and asparagus


> Franklin
>
> I guess I'd warn you that salting the soil isn't a very recommended
> practice. People often think of the soils out west that are so salty
nothing
> will grow in them. In our favor to the east, we have suifficient rainfall
to
> dissolve and leach out salt so it will eventually be removed. But a lot of
> people will probably want to scare you off of it. In fact, I'd say it's
> experimental, not recommended. But I do have this site that floods, and
> there is an asparagus patch there now. I'll have to think about it.
>
> Bill Shoemaker
> Sr Research Specialist, Food Crops
> Univ of Illinois - St Charles Hort Research Center
>
>
> > Hi Bill...ayup...I'm going to look into the salt and asparagus
> >thing...start with my local county agent first. Think I will ask the
folks
> >at the Univ. of Mass. if they know anything about it too...Franklin
>
>
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