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- From: Richard Robinson <rrobinson AT nasw.org>
- To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] wilted lettuce at market
- Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 10:20:26 -0400
On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:12:14 GMT, cjmaness AT juno.com wrote:
> I'm cutting early in the mornings, hydro-cooling and it goes into our walk
>in
> cooler immediately. We then pack it all into ice chests and take it to
> market. We can keep it cool at market, as long as it stays in the ice
>chests.
> I've tried selling it from the ice chest with big signs on them, but people
> are shy about opening up a ice chest and grabbing a head of lettuce. So, we
> try and display. We don't sell the displayed lettuce, we pull fresh heads
>out
> of the cooler, but it's trying to keep the display looking nice that is the
> problem. It wilts, I pull it and put out a fresh head, and by the end of
> market, I've lost a lot of lettuce.
What about bringing along a couple pots of uncut lettuce as table displays?
You could probably reverse-transplant some from the field into a 4" pot
without much injury.
--
Richard Robinson
http://www.nasw.org/users/rrobinson/
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Re: [Market-farming] Spring weather
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Re: [Market-farming] Spring weather,
Sue Wells, 04/29/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Spring weather, somersfarm, 04/29/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] wilted lettuce at market, Jay Sleichter, 04/29/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] wilted lettuce at market, Sue Wells, 04/29/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] wilted lettuce at market, mdbrabo AT att.net, 04/29/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] wilted lettuce at market,
BarbaraJ, 04/29/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] wilted lettuce at market, Owsley lucy, 04/29/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] wilted lettuce at market, Sue Wells, 04/29/2010
- [Market-farming] Summer Lettuce Production, Barking Cat Farm, 04/29/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] wilted lettuce at market,
cjmaness AT juno.com, 04/29/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] wilted lettuce at market, Richard Robinson, 04/29/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] wilted lettuce at market,
Beth Spaugh, 04/29/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] wilted lettuce at market, idyllwild farm, 04/29/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] wilted lettuce at market, cjmaness AT juno.com, 04/29/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] wilted lettuce at market,
SaladG, 04/29/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] wilted lettuce at market,
Road's End Farm, 04/29/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] wilted lettuce at market,
Jay Sleichter, 04/29/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] wilted lettuce at market, Road's End Farm, 04/29/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] wilted lettuce at market,
Jay Sleichter, 04/29/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] wilted lettuce at market,
Road's End Farm, 04/29/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] wilted lettuce at market, KAKerby, 04/29/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Spring weather,
Sue Wells, 04/29/2010
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