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- From: Shawnee Flowerfarmer <farmingflowers AT hotmail.com>
- To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] double cropped potatoes
- Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 19:27:44 -0500
David,
Your relay planting method is intriguing. I manage an 1850's Heritage Garden with a verrrrry small budget; all plant varieties must be pre-1850, so every season I am trying to save seed for the next....and raise enough crop to feed volunteers and perhaps, have some harvest to support our local Plant-a-Row for the Hungry program and also sell to fund next year's garden.
Sigh....that's many economic responsibilities to wrestle out of a quarter acre historical garden .
Plus, available greenhouse space varies considerably as I piggyback the Heritage Garden seedlings onto whatever gozillion crops I am raising for the nursery where I finance my life.
I will try your system to stretch my potato crop/seed next season. (Plus, we have better success when I have actual seedlings for volunteers to plant. There is always a gap between the enthusiasm of optimistic volunteers and their horticultural knowledge.)
Thanks for the details,
Shawnee, zone 5, but it's been July weather since late April.
(ps-have I punctuated correctly and so on? Hee hee....my, but you did rattle up the list-serve, didn't you? Cool. Still, I agree. When it's important to communicate something, one strives to be a credit to the teachers who emphasized the infrastructure of our language.)
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Re: [Market-farming] double cropped potatoes,
Shawnee Flowerfarmer, 07/25/2007
- Re: [Market-farming] double cropped potatoes, David Inglis, 07/25/2007
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