Market Farming

["Susan Ventura" <sue AT dragonfly-farms.com>]

Onion plants work very well as long as the roots have been trimmed and are free of soil.  I grow my own from seed so we pull out the plants from the tray, knock off the soil and trim the roots first.  Tops should also be trimmed to about 4”.   I’ve planted many thousands in a day including trimming time.  I also bought some onion plants last year and those come already trimmed so those went pretty easy and fast. 

 

From: market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Mac
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 11:54 AM
To: Market Farming
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] push seeders

 

This looks interesting!  How do onion plants work through the seeder? Thanks - Mac

Quoting Road's End Farm :

 

On Jan 25, 2011, at 10:47 AM, Susan Ventura wrote:

 

Don't have experience with the Hatfield but would recommend a
"Stand-n-Plant".  We have three of the planters and three of the seeders.
The larger ones I transplanted 72s up to 32s without issue.  I love the
stand-n-plant because it is one person/one hand operation to use and your
other hand is free to load it.  Much better in my opinion than having to use
two hands and two people like the Hatfield requires.

He is a link to the site  http://www.standnplant.com/

Now that looks interesting. If you're working with one person, how do you carry the transplants? and, does it work well with lettuce?

 

-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly

Fresh-market organic produce, small scale

 

 

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