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  • From: "waldenfarm" <waldenfarm AT bellsouth.net>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] spinach from transplant??
  • Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 16:13:36 -0400

I've grown all my spinach from transplants for many years.
 
And here's something to try- I plant snow & sugar snap peas the first week of August when it's hot. I get the seed to germinate in beds by planting, watering real good to cool the soil and cover the bed with short plastic pipe hoops covered with 85% shade cloth, held on by spring clamps. I can set them up in about 10 mins.
 
I overhead water every day for 3 or 4 days (morning & noon) to keep the soil temp. low. I take the mini-shade housings down when the first seeds start germinating. Might work for spinach.
 
Also, I cover seeds with sifted compost and get a higher and faster rate of germination. Research has shown that humic acids speed germination.
 
Alex McGregor
Walden Farm
Waldens Ridge, TN
 
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, September 20, 2009 12:14 PM
Subject: [Market-farming] spinach from transplant??

Hi all --

Has anybody ever tried growing spinach from transplants? I can't seem to get decent germination in the summer, even under shadecloth; but could surely sell the stuff in late summer and fall if I could get it to grow. I get my lettuce to germinate by starting it indoors in cool places, and set it all out as transplants. I don't know if spinach would just bolt if I tried that, though.

-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale



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