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- From: "Christine & Marlin" <glenecofarm AT planetcomm.net>
- To: "'Market Farming'" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Carrot question
- Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 21:00:12 -0400
>I've never had any luck with carrots in our heavy clay soils. I've given up on carrots completely. I've tried them year after year in different conditions: nope. No luck. I think it's a myth that carrots ever grow well, although maybe they grow well in sand. Here in Virginia’s Shenandoah
Valley I am dealing with rocky silt loam soils with a clayey subsoil base—not
the greatest soil for growing carrots in, but I can grow carrots here, nothing
worth bragging about, but acceptable nevertheless. They don’t have
to be very good to be considerably better than supermarket carrots, including
those stubby, already peeled, and ready to eat things that have become the rage
in recent years. Considering all the work involved in keeping them weeded,
digging them, cleaning them up, and then bunching them for sale, I can’t
justify growing many of them for farmers’ market sales but I do like to
grow some for my CSA clients and myself. I have my best luck with Early Marlin Burkholder |
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Re: [Market-farming] Carrot question
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Re: [Market-farming] Carrot question,
Pat Meadows, 06/25/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] Carrot question,
John Pike, 06/25/2006
- Re: [Market-farming] Carrot question, Allan Balliett, 06/25/2006
- Re: [Market-farming] Carrot question, John Pike, 06/25/2006
- Re: [Market-farming] Carrot question, Allan Balliett, 06/25/2006
- Re: [Market-farming] Carrot question, John Pike, 06/25/2006
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- Re: [Market-farming] Carrot question, Tradingpost, 06/25/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] Carrot question,
John Pike, 06/25/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] Carrot question,
Pat Meadows, 06/25/2006
- Re: [Market-farming] Carrot question, Kelly Saxer, 06/25/2006
- Re: [Market-farming] Carrot question, road's end farm, 06/26/2006
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[Market-farming] Shallots,
logrock, 06/26/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] Shallots,
road's end farm, 06/26/2006
- Re: [Market-farming] Shallots, logrock, 06/27/2006
- Re: [Market-farming] Shallots, road's end farm, 06/27/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] Shallots,
road's end farm, 06/26/2006
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