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- From: <clearviewfarm AT bluefrog.com>
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- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Variety observations
- Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 18:42:43 -0700
Beth,
Has there been any downy mildew pressure in your area? If so, have you seen any cucumber or melon varieties hold up to that at all? It has wiped out my first planting of cukes and has hit my second, as well affected my muskmelons. So far, no signs of any in the summer or winter squash.
Kurt Forman
Clearview Farm
Palmyra, NY 14522
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Subject: [Market-farming] Variety observations
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 17:50:01 -0400
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Has there been any downy mildew pressure in your area? If so, have you seen any cucumber or melon varieties hold up to that at all? It has wiped out my first planting of cukes and has hit my second, as well affected my muskmelons. So far, no signs of any in the summer or winter squash.
Kurt Forman
Clearview Farm
Palmyra, NY 14522
--- lists AT rhomestead.com wrote:
From: "Beth Spaugh" <lists AT rhomestead.com>
To: "'Market Farming'" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: [Market-farming] Variety observations
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 17:50:01 -0400
Is it time while we
are still looking at plants, harvesting, and marketing, to share experiences
with varieties?
Tomatoes:
Speckled Roman is eye-catching, attractive, fat, juicy and sells very
well.
Juliet is
rock solid disease resistant and produces well. Having trouble selling
it.
Garden Peach selling well and growing well. I would not use hoophouse
space on it again because the outside plants are doing very
well.
Orange Blossom is a wonderful tomato and sells well, but it seems
very susceptible to every disease under the sun. Short season or multiple
plantings. The fruits can be cosmetically beautiful, but also can have lots of
spots and cracks.
Grafted a few heirlooms on Maxifort. The fruit of the grafted
Striped German and Cherokee Purple are much nicer than the ungrafted
fruit. They don't have nearly as much stem scar area. Plants and
yield, all in the hoophouse, look similar grafted and
ungrafted.
Polbig and Mountain Princess outside fruit is cosmetically good, and
they are producing very well.
Pineapple fruits seem nicer looking than Striped
German.
Squash:
I
have used and like the powdery mildew resistant Success. It is a small
squash fruit though - takes a lot of squash to make a pound. I also tried
SlikPik this year and will change to SlikPik. The SlikPik fruits are much
larger. My CSA likes volume. Market customers also seem more drawn to the longer
SlikPik. I think Success is still a great squash, maybe better for home
gardens or someone with an upscale restaurant clientele.
Zephyr plants are holding up extremely well. The small Zephyrs are a hard
sell for me though.
Costata Romanesco is holding up much much better than the hybrid
zucchinis did. Standard zukes succumb to cuke beetles, squash bugs, viruses
pretty quickly on my farm.
Cukes:
Straight Eight is doing wonderfully. Other new one that held up
well until two days ago when it changed from healthy green to covered with
powdery mildew overnight is the heirloom Boothby Blonde. Still a little hard
sell of the yellow cuke, but has lots of potential and will be a repeat next
year.
Well, this was my
unwind from market. Need to go spray bT.
Beth Spaugh
Rehoboth Homestead, Peru, NY
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-
[Market-farming] Variety observations,
Beth Spaugh, 08/14/2010
-
Re: [Market-farming] Variety observations,
Etienne Goyer, 08/15/2010
- [Market-farming] Help from list administrator, breck, 08/15/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Variety observations, Beth Spaugh, 08/15/2010
-
Re: [Market-farming] Variety observations,
Richard Robinson, 08/16/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Variety observations,
Road's End Farm, 08/16/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Variety observations - squash,
Beth Spaugh, 08/16/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Variety observations - squash, michelle rome, 08/17/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Variety observations - squash, Road's End Farm, 08/17/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Variety observations - squash,
Beth Spaugh, 08/16/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Variety observations, Dave, 08/21/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Variety observations,
Road's End Farm, 08/16/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Variety observations,
clearviewfarm, 08/14/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Variety observations, Road's End Farm, 08/14/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Variety observations, Beth Spaugh, 08/15/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Variety observations, clearviewfarm, 08/15/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Variety observations,
Etienne Goyer, 08/15/2010
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