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  • From: Richard Robinson <rrobinson AT nasw.org>
  • To: <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Market-farming] Harvesting the great unwashed
  • Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 10:14:57 -0500

I have a nice crop of hoophouse looseleaf lettuce, and do not plan to wash it
before selling. I am wondering how you all would recommend harvesting to
minimize carrying dirt into the harvest bag. The options seem to be to:
--cut high enough to avoid the dirt all together (but then lose the bottom of
each leaf, and the base of the stalk)
--cut low and then swish any dirty cut end in a bucket before placing the
lettuce in its bag
--cut low, then recut to reduce the dirt carried into the bag
--pull the lettuce partially out of the soil before cutting

Any advice?

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Richard Robinson
www.nasw.org/users/rrobinson/
Hopestill Farm
www.hopestill.com






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