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  • From: "Wiediger, Alison" <alison.wiediger AT hart.kyschools.us>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Multi-planting onion starts
  • Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:41:54 -0600

If you are growing for your own use, it may be fine.  When we tried it, we got onions with flat sides and our customers wouldn't buy them.  Could have been the variety we used or our growing climate, but it didn't work for us to sell at farmers market.
 
Alison Wiediger, Au Naturel Farm


From: market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Robb, David
Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 11:10 AM
To: 'market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org'
Subject: [Market-farming] Multi-planting onion starts

Hello.  Great list!  I just joined.  I work for a large mental health non-profit that has just established an organic produce farm to provide employment (and therapy) for our clients. 

My Question:  We grow many thousands of storage and sweet onions which we start inside in non-plug trays.  I came across the idea of putting 4 to 5 onion starts into a single plug of a larger plug tray (say a 24 count) and then transplanting those out when the time is right.  Coleman says they will grow in a clump and develop normally.  Anyone out there try this?  Seems like a time saver…

 

David R - Indiana  

 

 




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