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  • From: "Beth Spaugh" <lists AT rhomestead.com>
  • To: "'Market Farming'" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Flame weeding Salad production systems
  • Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 19:38:32 -0400

Don’t bother to put the hoops up until you have greens under them. Just lay the row cover, or better yet clear plastic, on the ground.

 

If you use a single nozzle flamer, backpack or mounted on a small cart, you won’t have to take the hoops down to flame – just walk and wave.

 

I have both the Johnny’s seeder and the greens harvester and don’t use either one. The seeder is VERY heavy and awkward unless you are doing 6 rows of the same thing for quite a while. I have trouble with sand building up between the rollers unless it is quite wet. DH says I was tightening the axle too tight may be why even if I got the belt to keep doing its thing the axle would stop rotating, hence no seeds. I am too clutsy with the greens harvester to get the greens dumped into a Rubbermaid or bucket without spilling.

 

I have gone back to the Earthway seeder, though it seed too thickly (may block some holes on a plate next year if I don’t’ get a Planet Jr. or Yang) and the Victorinox knife that Johnny’s sells.

 

Beth Spaugh

Rehoboth Homestead, Peru, NY

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 Chris Corbin
Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2009 2:50 PM
To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Flame weeding Salad production systems

 

Forgot to add a couple of things:

Hello,

I am trying to get my production systems down for our salad mix next spring.  Below are the methods I intend to use please let me know what you think.

 

I am going to start the season out early with some low tunnel two row quick hoops.

 

-Put low tunnel hoops up to warm up the soil.

-Take down low tunnel hoops to till the soil.

-Put the hoops back up for sterile seed bed wait two weeks.

-Take hoops down and flame weed the beds with a 4 nozzle flame weeder

(DOES Anyone know where I can get a cheaper 4 nozzle flame weeder? or plans to build one?)

-Plant salad mix verities very dense with the Jonneys six row seeder water and cover with low tunnel quick hoops.

-Move low tunnels to next plot for moisture control when salad mix can survive outside*

-Finially harverst with the jonneys greens harvester  

 

*Note - The last two springs have been very wet and I have not been able to get into the field for salad planting.  The inclusion of low tunnel hoops would allow me to regulate the moisture in the soil and thus allow for more consistent supply to restaurants and markets.  



 

On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Chris Corbin <corbincdc AT gmail.com> wrote:

Hello,

I am trying to get my production systems down for our salad mix next spring.  Below are the methods I intend to use please let me know what you think.

 

I am going to start the season out early with some low tunnel two row quick hoops.

 

-Put low tunnel hoops up to warm up the soil.

-Take down low tunnel hoops to till the soil.

-Put the hoops back up for sterile seed bed wait two weeks.

-Take hoops down and flame weed the beds with a 4 nozzle flame weeder - http://www.rtol.net/jonathanmeyer/flameweeder/toppage4.htm

(DOES Anyone know where I can get a cheaper 4 nozzle flame weeder? or plans to build one?)

-Plant salad mix verities, water and cover with low tunnel quick hoops.

-Move low tunnels to next plot for moisture control when salad mix can survive outside*

 

 

*Note - The last two springs have been very wet and I have not been able to get into the field for salad planting.  The inclusion of low tunnel hoops would allow me to regulate the moisture in the soil and thus allow for more consistent supply to restaurants and markets.  

 
--
Chris Corbin
Onion Creek Farm Ames Iowa(Zone 5)
(641)780-5446




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Chris Corbin
Community and Regional Planning
(641)780-5446




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