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  • From: "David Inglis" <mhcsa AT bcn.net>
  • To: "'Market Farming'" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: RE: [Market-farming] lettuce transplants
  • Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 15:07:17 -0400

If they sprouted from seed this Spring they will be ok but if they are
over wintered plants they will more than likely bolt[ set seed ] when
still small. Better offer a money back guarantee.
David Inglis
Mahaiwe Harvest C.S.A.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
> [mailto:market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf
> Of Penny Trinca
> Sent: Sunday, May 11, 2003 11:04 PM
> To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: [Market-farming] lettuce transplants
>
>
>
> Hi Guys, Our Farmers' Market started up this week. A customer
> asked me for
> something and it was so cleaver that I thought I'd write and
> share it with y'all. I started several lettuce plants, basil,
> mustard, spinach, bull's blood beet in square peat flats. I
> meant for them to be large and beautiful for mother's day
> gifts. They worked out o.k., but a woman asked me for just
> the individual lettuce starts so she could make her own or
> plant them at her garden. Well, I'd just planted out all the
> lettuce I'd started. But, I had lots of volunteer lettuces in
> my garden that had sprouted up when I'd let some go to seed.
> I was going to till them in or weed them out but instead I
> just transplanted them into pots and I'll sell them all to
> her next week :) Yipee! Penny
>
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