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  • From: robert schuler <sunnfarm AT bellatlantic.net>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] A Riddle ...dampoff
  • Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 16:18:09 -0500

Try baking fine sand in the oven to kill all fungi then sprinkle on top of
seedling flats after seeding, this will go a long way in reducing
dampoff...Bob.


> Barb sprinkles a little corn meal around the tomato seedlings to
> discourage damping off. We'll see.
>
> paul tradingpost AT gilanet.com
>
> That is well said, replied Candide, but we must cultivate our garden.
> --Voltaire [Francois-Marie Arouet] Candide
>
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> On 3/31/2004 at 2:44 PM Pat Meadows wrote:
>
> >On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 11:41:13 -0600 (CST), you wrote:
> >
> >
> >>
> >> 1. Those 72 hole things you can buy at the hardward store for
> >> $5
> >> 2. I've recently moved to shallow (8 inches high I think)
> >> sweater boxes. In these, I've been using those Jiffy-Pack
> >> peat containers (square ones) filled with the 'Supersoil'.
> >> I can fit 50-60 of these in one sweater box.
> >> 3. Same as #2 but with round jiffy-pack peat containers.
> >
> >I've had really bad results with peat pots. I won't use
> >them anymore.
> >
> >I use the little 6-cell packs: 48 of those fit in the flat.
> >That gives the roots more room to grow than the 72-hole
> >things. Of course, it takes up more room per plant too.
> >
> >I think you're paying vastly more than you need to if you
> >buy this type of item at a local hardware store. Online
> >nursery/greenhouse suppliers should be *vastly* cheaper.
> >Maybe you even have a nursery supplier nearby - we don't.
> >You can Google on 'nursery supplies' to find them. One is
> >here: http://www.fredgloeckner.com . There are lots of
> >others.
> >
> >>
> >>> Have you fed them with any fertilizer/plant food? If so,
> >>> what kind and how often?
> >>
> >>No, I'm not feeding them at all. The 'Supersoil' has some fertilizer in
> >>it already. As I said, i've been very succesful with this stuff up until
> >>recently. Lettuce planted from seed in the sweater boxes on 2/6/04 are
> >>already in the ground and growing! Others in this set of stunted plants
> >>with bound roots have been sitting there since Dec and Jan.
> >
> >My guess would be that they didn't get nearly enough
> >nourishment.
> >
> >>> Can you give an estimate of how many hours of sunlight they
> >>> receive per day (on average)?
> >>
> >>Well, as I said, up until about a week ago I had to them all in at night.
> >
> >>So they were getting probably 8-10 hours a day. Now they're outside all
> >>the time, so they get 12+ hours a day.
> >
> >That's certainly plenty of sun - so that's not the problem.
> >
> >Maybe it's a combination of factors, but I would strongly
> >suspect 'not enough nourishment'.
> >
> >Because my seedlings are in the house, I feed my seedlings
> >with houseplant food (I can't use fish extract in the house
> >or my cat would be up there destroying the plants) - just a
> >basic, ordinary houseplant food from the grocery store,
> >using the houseplant food at 1/2 the strength recommended on
> >the bottle. I feed them (at this 1/2 strength) every other
> >time I water them - they generally need watering daily, so
> >they are fed every other day.
> >
> >So far, so good (all fingers crossed!). I've never had any
> >problems.
> >
> >And I try to time starting the seeds so that they are in the
> >little 6-cell packs the minimum possible time. I started
> >lettuce and Asian greens on March 3, for example, and
> >transplanted them outside two days ago. Swiss chard
> >started on March 10 will go outside sometime this week.
> >
> >Cheers,
> >Pat
> >--
> >"Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of
> >supply and demand. It is the privilege of human beings to
> >live under the laws of justice and mercy." - Wendell Berry
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