Maybe you could hire a bug for the quackgrass. Or try the glyphosphate idea, and plant with red clover afterwords. This is interesting, I'll poke around if I get more time.
http://www.cogongrass.org/control.cfm
http://www.nysaes.cornell.edu/ent/biocontrol/weedfeeders/wdfdrintro.html
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In case any of you were planning to come to the Sustainable Farming Association of Minnesota Conference on Saturday, and you have not pre- registered, we are full and have closed registration. I apologize if you were planning to register onsite, but we will not be able to take any walk-ups. It's great for us, but I'm sad for those who didn't
get in.
All the best, Jerry Ford Events & Youth Outreach Coordinator Sustainable Farming Association of MN (320) 543-3394 www.sfa-mn.org
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Message: 2 Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 09:19:02 -0500 From: Allan Balliett <aballiett AT frontiernet.net> Subject: [Market-farming] Setting up a Propagation Mat To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org> Message-ID: <p062309cec5c319dc7a27@[192.168.123.183]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed"
I seem to recall reading that a propagation mat should be sandwiched between two foam insulation boards, covered with grounded metal window screening and then covered with a sheet of heavy (waterproof) plastic
I've got one of those large rubber-like mats that Leonard "used to" sell. I noticed earlier in this year that it seems to be putting out spotty heat, so I thought maybe I better put a
sheet of insulation board on top of it spread out the heat evenly.
Does anyone else set their mat up like this? Do you use the grounded screen? After the mat attains heat (I do have an industrial thermostat), is there any reason why the insulation boards would be 'too much' for it?
I'd appreciate hearing your experiences and ideas.
Thanks
-Allan in WV
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Message: 3 Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:35:39 -0500 From: Pat Meadows <pat AT meadows.pair.com> Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Peppers in High Tunnels To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org> Message-ID: <r16rp4d8hjq1dl8vaknc6e8oej7j03nlhe AT 4ax.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 11:23:15 -0500, you wrote:
>If fruit is left on the plant and becomes fully red ripe is that a signal to >the plant >to shut
down, mine quit blooming after the reds showed up.? I had expected >them to keep going like tomatoes. >
I think it is. I'm not 100% positive, but I think so.
Pat -- In Pennsylvania's Northern Tier, northeastern USA. Website: www.meadows.pair.com/articleindex.html
What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make. - Jane Goodall
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Message: 4 Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:40:38 -0500 From: Pat Meadows <pat AT meadows.pair.com> Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Quack Grass To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org> Message-ID: <u66rp4ho38tqo05gqgjv9vto2ntqh0sh4f AT 4ax.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
On Sun, 15 Feb 2009 09:07:18 -0500, you wrote:
>Once a week for the past two months I have been digging quack grass roots >out of my green house but
this weed just keeps coming back. Can anyone tell >me how to get rid of quack grass. >
Sigh. It's not easy. It is terrible stuff. We have it too. It's part of the reason (not the whole reason, but a good part of it) why I'm gardening mostly in Self-Watering Containers now.
I suppose Roundup would work if I could bring myself to use it. Our place is only about 50 feet from a creek and we're uphill from the creek. I don't know what Roundup would do to the life in the creek. I don't think it would help it, however.
Pat -- In Pennsylvania's Northern Tier, northeastern USA. Website: www.meadows.pair.com/articleindex.html
What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make. - Jane Goodall
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Message: 5 Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:50:18 -0500 From: Pat Meadows
<pat AT meadows.pair.com> Subject: Re: [Market-farming] potato seed, source & disease To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org> Message-ID: <ur6rp4dli5pa3sendi5c3jsuhjadv3e42f AT 4ax.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
On Sun, 15 Feb 2009 07:52:34 +0200, you wrote:
>We use True Potato Seed (TPS) grown in trays just like tomatoes and then planted out, the progeny of which is then our seed for the ware crop. There are limited varieties available however, and it is a two stage process, but if your process is sterile it produces very clean seed. We us Hygrotech "Mari".... > >By the way, could someone tell us what a CSA is......I guess its some kind of consumer group...we would like to try something like this in our local city ....sorry, we're new! >
CSA stands for Community-Supported Agriculture.
I suppose every CSA is different, it can
work however the farmer and subscribers desire. But here's a typical setup:
The subscribers buy 'shares' in the farmer's crops for a season or for a year. They pay in advance. I've seen figures such as $400 USD for a share these days - that would be for a spring/summer/fall growing season. Then the farmer distributes his crops to the members each week or every other week.
The members get whatever is in season, as determined by the farmer - they don't get to pick and choose usually.
If there's a crop failure, well - then there's a crop failure. The farmer is not obliged to make up the difference or to pay back the money. The subscribers are, therefore, assuming some of the risk of farming and supporting the farm.
I've been a member only once, because I wanted to try it. It wasn't much use to me because I garden, as it happens - too much duplication. If I did not garden,
I'd have loved it.
My daughter, who doesn't garden, is a member of an excellent CSA in her area: she *loves* it. She drives out to the farm each week and picks up her box of greens, tomatoes, corn - whatever.
The members need to be a little adventuresome; they often receive vegetables that they haven't eaten before and need to learn to cook. This broadens their horizons which is excellent.
It takes a brave farmer to contract with, say, 100 people to produce a box of vegetables and/or fruit and/or herbs for each of them every week for six months. The farmer needs to schedule, plan, and plant carefully. Some CSAs are combined efforts from several farms.
Often, CSA's have picnics on their farms, or other events, for the subscribers to get to know the farmer and farm. Some CSAs require that the subscribers work a certain amount of hours. CSA farmers often have email newsletters to keep
the subscribers advised of what veggies they will be having and what's happening on 'their' farm.
Article on CSA:
http://www.localharvest.org/csa/
Pat -- In Pennsylvania's Northern Tier, northeastern USA. Website: www.meadows.pair.com/articleindex.html
What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make. - Jane Goodall
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