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  • From: "Susan Houghton" <susangivingtree AT earthlink.net>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Winter Greenhouse varieties for Indiana?
  • Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 07:05:02 -0500

Spinach! Spinach! Spinach!

It does extremely well, we plant in early September, cut (or hand pick) until December, cover with reemay, and the start picking again in late Feb or early March. It will bolt in April, especially if you don't keep the house really cool.

We have grown Tyee, Space and Melody for years, but this year saw Renegade in January, and will do nothing but it in the future. Renegade is denser, heavier, larger, and was being grown side by side with Space, with almost twice the harvest potential.

We also like red oak leaf, Tango, winter density,and lolla rossa (if plant spacing is right), not for heads, but for greens. red kale, purple kohlrabi, even some cabbages make good mixed greens.

Susan
Lansing Michigan (zone 4 mostly)


----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith Johnson" <kd.johnson AT insightbb.com>
To: "Market Farming List" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2008 12:49 PM
Subject: [Market-farming] Winter Greenhouse varieties for Indiana?


What are your favorite, and most successful varieties of winter greens
for winter greenhouse production? My UNheated space utilizes hoop houses
inside the larger greenhouse.

My lettuces are thriving, but slow-growing. Winter marvel seems very
cold and freeze resistant. Red sails, Cracoviensis, and Oakleafs are
doing OK.

Mizuna is working well, the bok choy fair, other brassicas like kale and
collards are getting heavy snail predation (treating with light dustings
of hardwood ash, though beer traps and picking may be necessary).

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Keith Johnson
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