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- From: "Beth Spaugh" <lists AT rhomestead.com>
- To: "'Market Farming'" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: [Market-farming] transplanting carrots
- Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 11:20:14 -0500
I know folks transplant beets. I wonder if
anyone has had success transplanting carrots. I have seeded them in the
hoophouse in February with June harvest. They were great, and the CSA loved
having carrots early. So, I wonder about getting earlier harvests outside too? I tried presprouting and suspending in a
cornstarch gel to get an earlier start. Could see it had potential, but I still
had trouble spacing them out enough, and it would take quite a few ziplocks of
them to seed enough for a 100 share CSA harvest. I did learn you have to cover
the cornstarch and seed well or the cornstarch will dry out and encrust the
seed. But that would get them germinated earlier. Beth Spaugh Farm Fresh Food Club CSA - http://rhomestead.com Garden fresh vegetables, organically
grown, and pastured chicken, duck, and geese "How we eat determines, to a
considerable extent, how the world is used." - Wendell Berry "Without power over our food, any
notion of democracy is empty." - Frances Moore Lappe From:
market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Marcy Beth and Allan, I
appreciate your feedback. I have custody of a
neighbor’s old Planet Jr. He doesn’t use it but
doesn’t want to sell it J Maybe I’ll
work with it more on small seeds. I’ve had a tough time with it but
I’m not very patient with things like that and after reading the whole
process to change seed size I don’t think I’d do any better with
the pinpoint. And my hoophouse soil is FAR from perfect! Especially
after I had my neighbor take his skid-steer tiller through it last spring to
work in the wheat grass cover – way too deep and we lost all the nice
soil we’d been working on. I’ll be more
cognizant of what seed I’m planting (last year’s lettuce vs this
year’s seed makes a huge difference in germination). Maybe do more
transplants for nice head spacing too. I was thinking about carrots, beets,
chard, radish, all my herbs, but once we get the soil better the spacing will
do better too. I like your suggestion about rolling the soil Allan and
we’ll try a barrel. Got rid of an old sod roller that must have
weighed 300#. We could hardly move the thing. No clue what they did with it.
Since I’ve got
boys that love to use their knives I think we’ll stick with that for
harvesting – this year anyway. THANKS again!
I’m glad I checked as I’m sure I’d end up with both technical
and personality issues! Marcy From:
market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org]
On Behalf Of Beth Spaugh I don’t like mine. Johnny’s offered
for me to send it back for them to work on but I haven’t rounded up a
large enough sturdy box yet. Apparently they have made some adjustments since I
got mine 3 years ago. I was going to take it to the NOFA conference for them to
take back, but ended up not going, so… The technical issues – 1) the soil
tends to build up behind the roller and the seeds don’t come out. It may
work well in a perfect soil at a perfect moisture level. I have sandy soil in
my hoophouse and it doesn’t not work well unless quite wet. 2) The belts pop off and aren’t real
noticeable, so you don’t realize you are not sowing seeds. |
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[Market-farming] planter for sweet corn,
Andy Fellenz, 02/03/2009
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: [Market-farming] planter for sweet corn, clearviewfarm, 02/04/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] planter for sweet corn, sunnfarm, 02/04/2009
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Re: [Market-farming] planter for sweet corn,
Mark Weinheimer, 02/04/2009
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Re: [Market-farming] Pinpoint seeder,
Marcy, 02/05/2009
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Re: [Market-farming] Pinpoint seeder,
Beth Spaugh, 02/05/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] Pinpoint seeder, Allan Balliett, 02/05/2009
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Re: [Market-farming] Pinpoint seeder,
Marcy, 02/05/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] Pinpoint seeder, Andy Fellenz, 02/05/2009
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[Market-farming] transplanting carrots,
Beth Spaugh, 02/06/2009
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Re: [Market-farming] transplanting carrots,
Shawnee Flowerfarmer, 02/06/2009
- [Market-farming] Germination/ Maturation Days, jjburroughs, 02/06/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] Germination/ Maturation Days, bcluton, 02/06/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] Germination/ Maturation Days, Road's End Farm, 02/06/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] Germination/ Maturation Days, Wiediger, Alison, 02/06/2009
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Re: [Market-farming] transplanting carrots,
Shawnee Flowerfarmer, 02/06/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] Germination/ Maturation Days, Garth & Kim Travis, 02/06/2009
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Re: [Market-farming] Pinpoint seeder,
Beth Spaugh, 02/05/2009
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Re: [Market-farming] Pinpoint seeder,
Marcy, 02/05/2009
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Re: [Market-farming] Marking supplies,
Pat Meadows, 02/05/2009
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Re: [Market-farming] Marking supplies,
Kathy Somers, 02/05/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] Marking supplies, Pat Meadows, 02/05/2009
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Re: [Market-farming] Marking supplies,
Kathy Somers, 02/05/2009
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