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Re: [Market-farming] Radishes out of season was Re: Meeting with Chefs
- From: Richard Stewart <rstewart AT zoomtown.com>
- To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Radishes out of season was Re: Meeting with Chefs
- Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 11:58:44 -0500
A bulk of what we harvest from the white icicles are all two to three week old young plants/micros that produce an awesome crunch and a easy to chew flavorful green. We plant them in a furrow 3" wide and dense. What I forgot to say is that we use the white icicles to break up clay. We harvest every other radish and let the rest rot into the soil in winter. Best tillage there is. Daikons are better with REALLY deep penetration and stored biomass, on a small scale the icicles work great. You get a harvest, you break up the clay and the compost you put down prior to seeding gets worked in deeply during the frost and thaw cycle during winter. As to bolting, they do best in the fall I think in the fashion that we grow them where we are not worried about harvesting every single root. I guess we see about 10 to 15% bolt which is acceptable in how we grow. But we grow them all year from Spring till freeze for our salad mixes. Just to give you the idea of the volume We plant 100 row feet every week sequentially for 39 weeks. We get .30 pounds per row foot. After the first two to three weeks we are constantly harvesting about 30 pounds of JUST these radish micros. I posted photos a while back via this link: http://gallery.me.com/thesw0rdofroland#100300 Richard Stewart Carriage House Farm North Bend, Ohio An Ohio Century Farm Est. 1855 (513) 967-1106 |
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Richard Moyer, 12/22/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Update--Meeting with Chefs: production questions,
Road's End Farm, 12/22/2010
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[Market-farming] Radishes out of season was Re: Meeting with Chefs,
Richard Stewart, 12/22/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Radishes out of season was Re: Meeting with Chefs,
Allan.Balliett, 12/22/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Radishes out of season was Re: Meeting with Chefs,
Richard Stewart, 12/22/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Radishes out of season was Re: Meeting with Chefs,
Road's End Farm, 12/22/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Radishes out of season was Re: Meeting with Chefs,
Richard Stewart, 12/22/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Radishes out of season was Re: Meeting with Chefs, Road's End Farm, 12/22/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Radishes out of season was Re: Meeting with Chefs,
Richard Stewart, 12/22/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Radishes out of season was Re: Meeting with Chefs,
Road's End Farm, 12/22/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Radishes out of season was Re: Meeting with Chefs,
Richard Stewart, 12/22/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Radishes out of season was Re: Meeting with Chefs,
Allan.Balliett, 12/22/2010
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[Market-farming] Radishes out of season was Re: Meeting with Chefs,
Richard Stewart, 12/22/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Update--Meeting with Chefs, Wendy's Produce, 12/22/2010
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