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  • From: "Ken Bezilla" <kenbez AT hotmail.com>
  • To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Germinating Swiss Chard in warm weather
  • Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 01:28:17 +0000

On a related note: I've germinated beet seeds here in our fierce August heat without trouble. But the problem isn't germinating the seed -- the seed come up just fine. The problem is that somehow 99% of the beet seedlings damp off/rot within a few weeks of emergence. Still haven't figured out how to deal with this, except that if we want to have beets as a fall crop, then we need to plant them earlier (by June), and just let them get bigger and gnarlier than usual...

Ken Bezilla
East Wind
southern Missouri

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