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  • From: "adriana" <gutierrez-lagatta AT charter.net>
  • To: <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Market-farming] Germinating swiss chard
  • Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 06:16:18 -0500

>How warm is the weather?
It's over 90 degrees in the greenhouse these days....

>Try refrigerating the seed for a couple of days - preferably in some damp
>sand or vermiculite. We refrigerate our seeded lettuce flats, covered, for
>two days after seeding - now until September or later.
Allison, I assume you're talking about refrigerating the seeded flats, not
the seeds? I used to do this with lettuce int he summer when I grew mesclun
in Florida, I may need to do the same with the chard. Has anybody tried
presprouting chard seeds?

Thanks,
Adriana





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