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  • From: Allan Balliett <Allan AT freshandlocalcsa.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 22:05:20 -0500

Wow! So noone else has seen this, eh?

Well, here are some more observations:

1. Sometimes the clusters are actually formed by the tops of the onions being pulled into (apparently!) holes about the size of an earthworm hole. The greens most definitely fill the holes, so it's impossible for me to understand what could be pulling THREE sets by their tops simultaenously into the ground without indication of where that 'something' is getting back into the ground after setting up the sets for 'pulling.'

2. I've both netted remayed beds in previous years and, strangely, had fewer instances of movement, but had some just the same. Can you imagine what a heart break this is after this careful layout? One bed this year was about 70percent distrubed by the next morning. I don't know that you can see it in our picutres, but the sets are well into the ground, with their wastes below the surface. There are not 'easy' to pull our of the ground. They are not wind blown, etc.

3. This happens to onion plants as well as onions sets. It happens to neither once their roots are established in the least. It also happens to leek plants..

4. I watered the beds we had problems with yesterday afternoon and there was apparently ZERO movement over night. So, I have my prophlaxis, but, as a biodynamic practitioner all ready steeped in superstition, i'd REALLY like to know what the source of this agitation is.

Thanks

-Allan




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