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- From: Chris Reid <chriscreid AT yahoo.com>
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- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Broccoli raab
- Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:54:10 -0800 (PST)
Bob said:
Raab is best grown as you would grow mustard greens. Don't grow it as broccoli. In NJ farmers seed it in late October into early November and over wintered to harvest ASAP. usually before April. A day or two over 70 degrees will cause Raab to bolt. Its a plant that definately wants cool weather start to finish... Bob.
I reply: thanks, Bob. That's a good clear parameter to watch out for.
Last late July I used 30% shade cloth to start fall snap peas in a hot garden and it worked out well.
I am wondering if shading the raab on unseasonably warm days would help, or if the temp is so far out of whack when it's 70 that shade cloth will not do enough .
Just thought I'd ask -- this is a problem I see over and over again but have yet to solve. I don't know how many customers will balk at raab with yellow flowers on it. Unlike other plants that bolt and taste bad, it seems to taste okay to me with the yellow flowers on it.
Scheepers I think sells a raab called Marzatica that they say you should plant in fall and overwinter. (maybe translated out of Market-ese, it just means it is very sensitive to bolting?) I have some Marzatica in cold frames planted in late fall and will be watching to see how they do. Other years probably planted too late by Bob's reckoning, they have bolted before they amounted to anything. Chris Reid
Stamford, CT |
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Re: [Market-farming] wood chips
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- Re: [Market-farming] wood chips, Bobbett, 02/15/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] wood chips,
Garth & Kim Travis, 02/15/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] wood chips,
Mike Rock, 02/15/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] wood chips,
Road's End Farm, 02/15/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] wood chips, Sue Wells, 02/15/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] wood chips,
Mike Rock, 02/15/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] wood chips,
Richard Stewart, 02/15/2010
- [Market-farming] New Jang AP-1 Clean Seeder, Richard Stewart, 02/15/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] New Jang AP-1 Clean Seeder, stonecirclefarm tds.net, 02/16/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] wood chips,
Richard Stewart, 02/15/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] wood chips,
Road's End Farm, 02/15/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] wood chips,
Mike Rock, 02/15/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] wood chips, Richard Stewart, 02/15/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Broccoli raab, E C GRANATA, 02/15/2010
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