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  • From: "Bill Shoemaker" <wshoemak AT inil.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] The Case of the Strange Walking Sets
  • Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 08:03:18 -0600

Allan

While I can't say I've seen this before, your pictures reminded me of when I planted some garlic cloves and the Canada Geese in the neighborhood would pull them out. They were planted too shallow and the tops were slightly sticking up from the ground. The geese would come along and tug on them, thinking they were food. They'd leave them laying on top of the ground. Is it possible that some animal is pulling them out but leaving them laying there? Because you have them planted so intensively it may just be a coincidence that they are laying "in a bunch". Must be strange to discover them like that.

Bill Shoemaker, Sr Research Specialist, Food Crops
University of Illinois - St Charles Horticulture Research Center
www.nres.uiuc.edu/faculty/directory/shoemaker_wh.html



Subject: [Market-farming] The Case of the Strange Walking Sets


For the last several years, our onion sets 'walk' overnight. This
year, they are walking in the hoophouse as well as in the fields.
While we plant biointensively, on intensively within rows, the next
morning beds will have gatherings of sets in them. Usually 3 sets
bunched together by their tops.

This even happens if we remay or net the beds but, for some reason,
it does not happen as frequently.

I've got some photos on the web. Maybe you can explain this mystery for us.

Thanks -Allan

http://www.freshandlocalcsa.com/Sites (PS There is some html 'noise'
on the picture page. Please ignore it for now! Thanks again -Allan)





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