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  • From: "frank ventura" <frank.dragonflyfarms AT gmail.com>
  • To: "'Market Farming'" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] onion plants again
  • Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:11:50 -0500

Took us about 32 man hours last year to plant 10000.
So...should be another 15 hours or so...

-----Original Message-----
From: market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Casey & Teena
Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 4:01 PM
To: Market Farming
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] onion plants again

how many man-hours to plant 14000 onions

----- Original Message -----
From: "frank ventura" <frank.dragonflyfarms AT gmail.com>
To: "'Market Farming'" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 1:59 PM
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] onion plants again


> Great thanks. We grow our own from seed and plant them bare root also
> (into
> plastic mulch). We wanted a transplanter for this year but the budget
> didn't allow for it...
>
> 14,000 onions by hand with a stand and plant for us. Next year we will
> get
> one.
>
> Does the model 122 plant in bare soil or plastic. How close can you plant
> with it?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
> [mailto:market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of
> cjmaness AT juno.com
> Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 2:41 PM
> To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: Re: [Market-farming] onion plants again
>
> It's an old transplanter we bought from EBay last year. It is the model
> 122,
> and really a tobacco planter. We can't really get a close enough spacing
> using it, but with so many onions and being short on time... we'll plant
> out
> as many as we can using it, and then go back and spot over and fill in the
> rest by hand. These are not plugs but onion plants we bought.
> We have used this transplanter for everything and it works great. It's a
> huge time saver for us.
> Carla
> Perkins, OK
>
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