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  • From: "Wiediger, Alison" <alison.wiediger AT hart.kyschools.us>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] pH testers
  • Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 12:21:13 -0500

Hi Breck!
 
Tunnels help quite a bit in wet weather, but since we didn't know to install drainage when we built them (not many were even in existence then and we were just stumbling along in a new way to grow, kinda on our own), not as much as they could.  With proper drainage, they would be awesome.  Unfortunately, retro-fitting them is a labor-intensive job we haven't yet accomplished.
 
But, even with the challenges, we have tomatoes over 3 feet tall with large fruits, cherry tomato plants even larger and closer to sales, cucumbers, swiss chard, broccoli, lettuce,strawberries and mesclun, and zinnias, cosmos, ageratum, sweet peas snapdragons, campanula and scented basils to cut for bouquets.  A friend of ours also has snap/snow peas, squash, potatoes close, etc.  None of that would be happening outdoors. 
 
Alison


From: market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of breck
Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 11:14 AM
To: 'Market Farming'
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] pH testers

Allison, your positive outlook is amazing! I am located close enough to you, that I too can’t catch a break with the rain. I prefer to whine and carp instead.

 

How much help are your tunnels when the ground is soaked? Have you trenched around them to lower the water table? Does the lack of wind and sun work negatively with tunnels?

 

I really enjoyed your book on tunnels.

 

FarmerBreck

Breck Carden

Carden’s Garden

Crestwood, KY 40014

 

 


From: market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Wiediger, Alison
Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 8:54 AM
To: Market Farming
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] pH testers

 

Ah, but isn't this one of the big reasons we all do market growing (besides the big money of course!) ?  The everlasting chase after the perfect season.  The more we know, the more we want/need to know and no season is the same.  What a challenge!  What fun!  (Well, most of the time.  I do wish it would stop raining long enough to get some crops in the ground)

 

Alison Wiediger, Au Naturel Farm


  In my time of growing of most plants in zone 5, I chase after the most exquisite science possible and often default to the voodoo that works.  Sigh....Shawnee zone 5, and after 30 years of cajoling the plants, still perplexed.




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