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- From: pam AT twinoaks.org
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- Subject: [Market-farming] Re: Winstrips and speedlings
- Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 12:54:37 -0500
On 25 Mar 2005 at 12:01, Marlin Burkholder wrote:
> I know Pam Dawling has been using styrofoam Speedling trays for years.
> They look like they could hang on to bacterial or fungal pathogens a
> lot easier than do the Winstrips and I can't imagine how they could
> survive a hot steam bath. How do you clean them between uses, Pam?
>
> Is there anyone out there using Winstrip trays and having good luck
> with them? Has anyone else had similar rotten luck like I am having?
> This thing has gotten me spittin mad!
Confession time. I don't clean my Speedlings or my Winstrips, or
pots or anything, between uses! I empty them, and let them dry
thoroughly, then store them. Not to say none of my plants die, just
that the problems I get are aphids, too much or too little water, mice
or human accident. Not much in the way of diseased seedlings.
Maybe it's the organic homemade compost I use, that deals with the
pathogens. Maybe it's sheer luck.
For speedlings you can buy inserts that make the plants
easier to remove. We don't use them (seem expensive for what you
get), but they do exist, for those that want them.
Winstrips: we find the 50 cell ones good for cucurbits, so
long as we don't have the fast growing ones in them too long
(summer squash for instance). I think we've maybe had trouble
growing the earliest cantaloupes in them, because they got too wet.
Because we sometimes get behind with transplanting, I don't use
the smaller cell Winstrips much.
Well, Marlin, if you do throw out your Winstrips, could you
throw them in my direction? But, I do hope they work for your
peppers.
Pam Dawling, Louisa, VA, zone 7
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[Market-farming] Re: Winstrips and speedlings,
pam, 03/26/2005
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Re: [Market-farming] Re: Winstrips and speedlings,
road's end farm, 03/26/2005
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[Market-farming] Dealing with Pathogens on trays and in soil mixes Re: Winstrips and speedlings,
Allan Balliett, 03/27/2005
- Re: [Market-farming] Dealing with Pathogens on trays and in soil mixes Re: Winstrips and speedlings, Marlin Burkholder, 03/31/2005
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[Market-farming] Tin foil seed packets,
Marlin Burkholder, 03/31/2005
- Re: [Market-farming] Tin foil seed packets, Chuck, 03/31/2005
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[Market-farming] Dealing with Pathogens on trays and in soil mixes Re: Winstrips and speedlings,
Allan Balliett, 03/27/2005
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Re: [Market-farming] Re: Winstrips and speedlings,
road's end farm, 03/26/2005
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