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  • From: Roots Farm & Karen Sutherland <rootsfarm AT cwdom.dm>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Settle a family debate!!!!!!!!
  • Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 09:00:56 -0400

We don't have cooler capacity,and our final packing area is miles from our picking/dunk & cool area so going back and forth not an option. We pick on day before market starting as early as possible but can't get to everything before the sun does. We find that if lettuce and other greens are dunked and drained and covered and left in shade, they'll hold well (and will crisp up if they've started wilting before we were able to pick). If windy, if cover has come off crates, if it's been dry for a while before harvest, we may have to dunk and cover and crisp up again when they reach packing site. They'll usually stay crisp through market if we keep wetting display at market and keep what doesn't need to display covered. We keep a bucket of clean water for short soaks of really wilted stuff which usually perks up again. Usual temperatures are in mid 80's day; mid 70's night. I wonder if the fast crisping response of the greens may be partly because they are still alive and are within their lifespan's range of accustomed temperatures and were organically grown so may have more capacity for resistance to stress.

Best wishes to all,

Karen Sutherland

Roots Farm
Organic Produce
Fruits, Roots, Vegetables & Herbs
Cockrane, DOMINICA
767-449-3038
rootsfarm AT cwdom.dm


On May 29, 2009, at 8:10 AM, cjmaness AT juno.com wrote:

Before it got hot, I could harvest all my lettuce and then wash. Now that it is in the 80's with lots of sunshine, I cut about 4 grape lugs of lettuce, or about 100 heads, at a time. Wash, and into the cooler it goes. Repeat. It's much slower this way, but if I try and cut more it starts wilting. If you can harvest it all and get it washed before it wilts, it really is faster.
Carla
Perkins, OK

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