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  • From: <clearviewfarm AT bluefrog.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Planting dates for fall crops in the Northeast
  • Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 11:47:12 -0700

Etienne, aren't you quite a bit further north than us? What is your zone?

Kurt Forman
Clearview Farm
Palmyra, NY 14522

--- etienne.goyer AT outlands.ca wrote:

From: Etienne Goyer <etienne.goyer AT outlands.ca>
To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Planting dates for fall crops in the Northeast
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 13:49:16 -0400

On 11-07-10 11:31 AM, Richard Robinson wrote:
> "It ain't rocket science."
> "No, it's succession planting."
>
> Timing plantings throughout the growing season has got to be one of the
> trickiest parts of
> market farming. For the past few years I have tried, and generally failed,
> to get things
> going on time for fall harvest of broccoli, cabbages, and other fall crops;
> I always seem
> to start too late, even though it's blistering hot when I do so. So I
> figure I'd better
> start things earlier than I have in the past. Is now too early to start
> seedlings for
> broccoli, for instance? Advice welcome.
>
> I am in Massachusetts, away from the coast.

I am just a beginner (in his firt season), but as a reference point, I
am transplanting (yes, transplanting, not starting) my fall brocoli this
week. FWIW! :)

Etienne
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