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- From: "Rob Wallbridge" <rob AT songberry.ca>
- To: "'Market Farming'" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] holding sweet potato slips
- Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 13:43:50 -0400
Thanks Beth and Rivka – this is very
likely the cause – we’ve had pretty wet summers here the past two
or three years, so I have not turned on any irrigation until later in the season;
by that time the sweet potatoes have probably formed wherever they’ve
found the most moisture. I’ll have to give them some extra attention! Cheers, Rob Rob Wallbridge Songberry Organic Farm 24 Sixth Line, email: rob AT songberry.ca web: www.songberry.ca facebook: become a fan of "Songberry
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[mailto:market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Road's End Farm On May 14, 2010, at 6:15 PM, Beth Spaugh wrote:
I find that if I use drip tape right by
the plants, I get a wonderfully easy to harvest "hand" of sweet
potatoes. Basically, the stem is the wrist and there are 4 to 8 good size sweet
poatoes pointing down like fingers. If they are running off sideways,
they are probably looking for water. Last year I put them under plastic
and thought with the very ample rain we had that there was plenty of moisture
so didn't turn the drip on them. I had long thin potatoes running
horizontally along the edge of the plastic. Thanks Beth! I was thinking that mine usually grow right under the plant like that
and wondering what the difference was between mine and Rob's -- mine are
usually also Georgia Jet (and often also from Mapple). I bet it is the drip
tape; I grow mine in plastic mulch also, with drip tape under the plastic, and
it does generally get turned on at least occasionally especially as they're in
the same general irrigation zone with the tomatoes, eggplant, and peppers; I do
sometimes turn that particular line off if I'm short on water as I was under
the impression that sweet potatoes don't need as much water as tomatoes etc.
do. But I'll try to remember that if it's dry enough to irrigate at all I
should give the sweet potatoes a good deep one occasionally so they'll stay
aiming down under the plants. Of course if they go too deep they provide a different type of digging
challenge . . . -- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly Fresh-market organic produce, small scale No virus found in this incoming message.
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[Market-farming] holding sweet potato slips,
stonecirclefarm tds.net, 05/13/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] holding sweet potato slips, Road's End Farm, 05/13/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] holding sweet potato slips, Rob Wallbridge, 05/13/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] holding sweet potato slips,
KAKerby, 05/14/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] holding sweet potato slips,
Rob Wallbridge, 05/14/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] holding sweet potato slips,
Beth Spaugh, 05/14/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] holding sweet potato slips,
Road's End Farm, 05/14/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] holding sweet potato slips,
Rob Wallbridge, 05/17/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] holding sweet potato slips,
beverly henkel, 05/17/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] holding sweet potato slips, Beth Spaugh, 05/18/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] holding sweet potato slips, Road's End Farm, 05/18/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] holding sweet potato slips, beverly henkel, 05/18/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] holding sweet potato slips, Road's End Farm, 05/18/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] holding sweet potato slips, beverly henkel, 05/18/2010
- [Market-farming] Using Ammoniated Straw, Jay Sleichter, 05/19/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Using Ammoniated Straw, Nan Hildreth, 05/21/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Using Ammoniated Straw, Marty Kraft, 05/21/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] holding sweet potato slips,
beverly henkel, 05/17/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] holding sweet potato slips,
Rob Wallbridge, 05/17/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] holding sweet potato slips,
Road's End Farm, 05/14/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] holding sweet potato slips,
Beth Spaugh, 05/14/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] holding sweet potato slips,
Rob Wallbridge, 05/14/2010
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