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  • From: Pat Meadows <pat AT meadows.pair.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 10:03:31 -0500

On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 22:59:33 -0500, you wrote:

>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.
>

That is weird. Could it be frost-heave? Or at least
something to do with the soil freezing and thawing?

Pat
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