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- From: KAKerby AT aol.com
- To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
- Subject: [Market-farming] oops
- Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2010 14:33:41 EDT
Well, I just ran what might work out to be a really expensive, failed
experiment. I'm harvesting more and more salad greens, and getting more
and more frustrated with my plastic salad spinner. Given the conversations
recently, I wondered if perhaps it was time to graduate to using a washing
machine. Just so happens our existing washer is in good repair but due to
be retired. So I washed it out thoroughly, got it ready for the first
batch of greens, filled it up with nice cold water, put in the greens, and ran a
cycle on gentle. My greens came out, well, abused. Most of the
leaves look like they were wadded up in a ball and then flattened out again,
with extensive cellular ruptures. They came out feeling almost like
leather. I don't know how well they'll hold up at market or if I'm going
to take them at all. Should probably just feed them to the chickens.
It occurred to me that perhaps all that damage occurred because they were
not in some kind of mesh bag? Ironically I was concerned that having them
in a bag would cause a lot of snags and tearing of the leaves, but it looks like
I did more damage than I would have had otherwise. So, I won't repeat this
procedure again until I figure out what happened. Is the machine's
agitation just too strong even on gentle? Would this have been alleviated
using the bags? I sort of thought I was already rougher than I wanted to
be with the leaves and they'd stood up OK with manual agitation but apparently
this machine really put them through a whole new level of agitation. What
did I do wrong?
Kathryn Kerby
frogchorusfarm.com (home of abused salad leaves)
Snohomish, WA
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[Market-farming] oops,
KAKerby, 06/03/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] oops, Carla Shafer, 06/03/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] oops,
KAKerby, 06/03/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] oops,
Deb Taft, 06/04/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] oops, Carla Shafer, 06/04/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] oops, BarbaraJ, 06/04/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] oops, BarbaraJ, 06/04/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] oops,
Deb Taft, 06/04/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] oops, SaladG, 06/04/2010
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