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- From: "Beth Spaugh" <lists AT rhomestead.com>
- To: "'Market Farming'" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Variety observations
- Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 14:25:55 -0400
I think we "just" have powdery mildew and viruses, but they do
enough damage. With the downy mildew alerts I did spray Champ WP yesterday on
the cukes and melons. Please don't send it our way.
Beth Spaugh
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From: market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of clearviewfarm AT bluefrog.com
Sent: Saturday, August 14, 2010 9:43 PM
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Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Variety observations
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
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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
Farm Fresh Food Club CSA - http://rhomestead.com
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Garden fresh vegetables, organically
grown, and pastured chicken, duck, and geese
"How we eat determines, to a
considerable extent, how the world is used." - Wendell Berry
"Without power over our food, any notion
of democracy is empty." - Frances Moore Lappe
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[Market-farming] Help from list administrator
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- [Market-farming] Help from list administrator, breck, 08/15/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Variety observations, Beth Spaugh, 08/15/2010
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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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