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  • From: Carla Maness <manessfarm AT gmail.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Transplants vs direct-seeded crops
  • Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:39:12 -0500

I honestly don't know. Our best guess was that it was simply too hot. We had numerous days of temps over 110, night time temps in the 90's. Soil temps were nearly as high as air temp.  We also had a lot of very windy days during that time and of course no rain.  We are on our rural water system, so we had plenty of water available and every crop is on drip. 
We always thought we did better with transplants as well. Until this year. 


On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 1:30 PM, <KAKerby AT aol.com> wrote:
Carla, I'm really curious about this statement.  I know you folks have had extreme drought conditions this year.  Is that the reason your transplants didn't make it?  I'm just rather stunned at that comparison.  For us the transplants have almost always outperformed the direct-seed.  Out-performed for us so consistently that I've tried to transplant everything, even those items that do OK direct-seeded.  I was starting to think "that's just the way it is" until I read your comment.  Care to elaborate on what you saw and why you think it happened that way?
Kathryn Kerby
Snohomish, WA
Ruminations - essays on the farming life at frogchorusfarm.com/weblog.html
 
In a message dated 10/11/2011 11:14:28 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, manessfarm AT gmail.com writes:
Transplants didn't survive, whether it was flowers or veggies. Direct seeded crops did much better. 
I'm sure next year it will be just the opposite :)

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