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  • From: stinknrose AT asparagusgardener.com
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] storage
  • Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 11:32:37 -0700

grow asparagus ...easy to grow....no storage needed..... economical to
get started....... as low as .35 cents a root. Make profit at Farmer's
Market. Food Stores, Road Side Stand, Pick Your Own, Frozen, and Pizza
Restraunts and doing a all veggie pizza with aspargus as their main
item. For details call or see pictures at
http://www.asparagusgardener.com StinknRose AT asparagusgardener.com
417-496-9356


Sincerely,
Rose Hembrook



> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [Market-farming] storage
> From: Willie McKemie <mf AT austinfarm.org>
> Date: Sat, February 25, 2006 9:07 am
> To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
>
> On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 10:28:33AM -0500, Lucy Goodman wrote:
> > we had great results storing our potatoes in a fridge not buried in the
> > ground but sitting in an unheated barn this winter.
>
> Someone might be interested in my potato storage experience this past
> season. Most years, I only get about half my potatoes well harvested.
> I get behind, the weeds get ahead of me, and we end up just salvaging
> the last half of the crop. Last year, I made a concerted effort to get
> them harvested. And, I had far more than I could sell; we usually sell
> out (or throw out) in September or so. We usually start digging in
> late April or maybe early May. Well, on to storage.
>
> We stored in three places:
> 1) a walkin cooler at about 40 deg
> 2) a "tomato" room, air conditioned to about 70 deg.
> 3) in un-air-conditioned space in the barn. 95-100 deg at times.
>
> Along about August or September, I noticed that the tomato room
> potatoes were sprouting. So we moved them into the walkin. We had
> been selling mostly from the un-cooled supply; we eventually moved them
> into the walkin even though they never sprouted. About November, I
> noticed all the potatoes (now in the walkin) were sprouting.
>
> So, it seems, in my situation, they store best at ambient temperature.
> and worst at AC temperatures. In the past, I have left the fluorescent
> lights in my walkin on as a matter of convenience. Bad idea. Any kind
> of light quickly ruins the potatoes. I covered the barn-stored potato
> pile with tarps. My tomato room has no windows and the lights are on
> only briefly.
>
> I have recently used quite a few as seed. Planting whole potatoes at
> 10"-12". And, we continue to cull, clean up the survivors and sell
> them. I do admit to being somewhat embarrassed about selling
> de-sprouted potatoes in fairly poor condition.
>
> Red Lasoda in central Texas. The first planting is up again after
> being frozen off once. They may have seen their last freeze.
>
> --
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