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  • From: Lucy Goodman <goodows AT infinet.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Post-Harvest Handling of Fall Greens
  • Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 11:27:18 -0500

have you tried washing the greens in a 2% saline solution (i.e about a 1/4 cup of salt per several gallons of water). Salt in the water allows the leaves to rehydrate due to the osmosis effect. This also makes the slugs slid off the greens and die.

Lucy Goodman
http://boulerbelt.blogspot.com

Allan Balliett wrote:
I'm still harvesting chard too.

When I pick chard, I put the stems in a bucket of water (the same as I
would flowers).  It seems to stay better that way.
    
I'm doing this, as well. I would think that it would work, but am 
finding that the stuff picked in the hoop house, even with the house 
under 60 degrees still tends to go limp. Radishes have been worse! 
(We grow radishes for the greens.)
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