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  • From: "Richard Holcomb" <richard AT coonrockfarm.com>
  • To: "'Market Farming'" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] spinach from transplant??
  • Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 07:58:15 -0400

Do you plant the peas this way for a late fall harvest or to overwinter for next Spring?

 

Richard Holcomb

Coon Rock Farm

Hillsborough, NC

 

From: market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of waldenfarm
Sent: Sunday, September 20, 2009 4:14 PM
To: Market Farming
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] spinach from transplant??

 

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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