Market Farming

[sunnfarm AT netscape.net]

Get a copy of Allan Armitage's book Specialty Cut Flowers. He lists soil born 
diseases and insects like parasidic nematodes that will carry over in the 
soil for years on certain flowers.
Most cut flower growers fumigate or steam sterilize the planting beds before 
every crop. I have seen flowers grow side by side on old soil and fumigated 
soil and though both flower beds were producing, the fumigated bed flowers 
were much better, like night and day.I think a cover crop of rape mixed with 
sudangrass works like an organic fumigant...Bob.
Sunny Meadow Farm
Bridgeton, NJ.

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