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  • From: Richard Moyer <ramoyer AT gmail.com>
  • To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [Market-farming] Lettuce questions
  • Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 08:52:16 -0400

Our first year with lettuces in quantity, we have sold out at our
first two market dates. We want to prevent physiological stress in
those coming on through June/July, and have read that keeping soil
temps cool is key. We have lots of shredded hardwood leaves we could
mulch between rows and plants with. But am concerned about creating
slug heaven, and also about cleaning leaf bits out of the lettuce
plants.
Do any of you mulch lettuce, if so with what? What about planting so
densely that all soil is shaded soon, and harvesting baby lettuce size
between?

Slug control: have used Sluggo with success, but am curious how much
and how often is recommended to put out.

Finally, several weeks before harvest date for the lettuces we have
been planting in fingerling potato pieces between the 12" lettuce
rows. Any ideas on interplanting within lettuce rows in beds,
removing the early crop to let the later crop fill the bed? Prefer
undersowing/interplanting with another salable crop. We did this with
two rows of carrots between 3 rows of parsnips last year per bed, and
harvested the carrots out in summer, digging parsnips in winter. What
other crop combos could work?

Thanks,
Richard Moyer
SW VA
Out to plant more peas and Yukon Golds before the rain.




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