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  • From: DFORD8N AT aol.com
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  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Seeding peas in trays
  • Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 08:08:28 EST

Do you drill holes in the bottom of the gutters for drainage?
 
What kind of volume/type grow mix do you use in the gutters? That could get pretty expensive, with that many feet, couldn't it?
 
--Dave
 
In a message dated 1/25/2010 12:00:19 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, rockyprairie AT earthlink.net writes:
Growers around here start their peas in sections of plastic roof gutter
filled with starting mix. They aren't that unwieldy if you cut the 10 ft
lengths in half. Don't really need end caps if you are gentle when watering
and don't plant right to the very end. Can easily be set over heat mats.
When it's time to transplant, make a trough in the soil approximately the
same depth/shape as the gutter. Push each section of peas right off the end
of the gutter into the trough. Allows you to wait till they are taller and
more robust since there's no worry about teasing individual plants apart. In
fact, the peas knitting together makes transplanting a bit easier. Totally
reusable. One grower seeds spinach here and there in the trays with a very
short self-supporting pea variety. Nice simultaneous jump-start on two early
crops, especially if workable soil is at a premium early on.

Kate
Western WA, Zone 7

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Sent: Sunday, January 24, 2010 7:08 PM
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Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Seeding peas in trays

How are those of you who are doing this handling the transplanting? We plant
peas so thickly that I don't see how, using our transplanting techniques
for, say, tomatoes or squash, we could possibly set enough pea plants in a
reasonable length of time (we plant over a thousand row feet of peas, and we
transplant everything by hand).



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



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