Market Farming

[Road's End Farm <organic87 AT frontiernet.net>]

On Jan 25, 2011, at 12:12 PM, Susan Ventura wrote:

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. 

I start my own onions in 72's, grow and plant them several seed/plants to a cell (on wider spacing than I would single plants). Are you saying that onions won't go through the seeder in a 72-size cell unless you knock all the soil off first? and, if so, do you also have to do that for lettuce, brassicas, etc.?

-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly

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