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  • From: <clearviewfarm AT bluefrog.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Cucumbers and Planting Advice
  • Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 06:10:01 -0700

Jay,

Have you ever used Surround WP on your cucurbits? It is fine kaolin clay
powder that you mix with water and spray on your plants to ward off the bugs,
either through light reflection or making it uncomfortable for the bugs to be
on your plants. It is OMRI approved (okay for organic use).

Kurt Forman
Clearview Farm
Palmyra, NY 14522

--- NanHildreth AT riseup.net wrote:

From: Nan Hildreth <NanHildreth AT riseup.net>
To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>, Market Farming
<market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Cucumbers and Planting Advice
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 21:40:28 -0500

Jay, how about replanting one of these heat lovers? basil (60 days
to harvest), okra (60 days), malabar spinach (30-40 days), melons
(70-100), edamame (soybean as a green vegetable) (75 -100), southern
peas (60-80), leaf amaranth (30 days), etc. Tomatoes?

At 10:58 PM 6/21/2010, Jay Sleichter wrote:
>I know I have been asking a few questions over the last few days,
>but my plans for this year have been rewritten a million times due
>to illness, weather, slow maturity and etc!
>
>My cucumbers in my movable tunnels are a bust this year. They were
>brutally attacked by cucumber beetles and they brought along the
>dreaded wilt. I am slowing loosing all my little pickling
>cucumbers. Almost seems like a plant a day or so. The ones I do
>pick have been selling out at every market. Like an idiot, I didn't
>plant an outside crop. Last year these cucs produced from May until
>September. In September, they weren't selling very good and I quit
>picking them.
>
>My question is this. What do I do with this space in the 16 by 32
>high tunnel. My original plans were to pick them until September and
>prep the outside space and then move my tunnel in early
>October. The cucumbers will probably be all gone by July 1. That
>gives me about 4 months of growing time before I move my building to
>cover the outside spot for winter harvest of carrots and haikuri
>turnips. What would you plant here? Does it make any sense to
>clean out the space and transplant more cucs back into this space? I
>am open to almost any ideas, as long as I can sell the produce.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Jay
>
>Jay's Jellies, Produce and More
>Clay Center, Kansas
>www.jaysjellies.com
>http://highfarming.blogspot.com/
>
>
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