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  • From: "Tom at Limerock" <limerock AT thirdplanet.net>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Market-farming] drip and transplant marking alternative
  • Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 11:13:47 -0400

Alison,

Do you bury your T-tape with anything, and if so, what?

Tom Anslow
Limerock Orchards
Catawba Island, Ohio

> If you use drip irrigation on your crops, you have a ready-made transplant
> marking device. We use T-tape with emitters at 1 foot intervals. We
> prepare the bed, lay the T-tape and turn on the water. In about 10
minutes,
> you have a circle of wetness at each emitter. Just push the transplant
into
> the wet spot. No measuring, no digging, no pouring water. We can
> transplant literally hundreds of plants an hour this way - Paul dropping
> plants down the row, me pushing them into the soil. We may waste a little
> space sometimes, planting at 1 foot when we could plant at 9 inches (some
> cutflowers, some small lettuces), but most of what we transplant fits in 1
> foot, 2 foot (tomatoes, peppers, etc.) or 3 foot (squash, cukes, melons)
> intervals. For the brassicas we planted last week, we used 18" spacing,
and
> I had to "dig" with my fingers in the "dry" spots every other spot, but we
> left the drip on for about 3 hours, and everything got watered in well.
> This is the easiest way we have ever hand transplanted and we use it for
> everything since we lay drip for all crops we grow.
>
> Alison Wiediger, Au Naturel Farm





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