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  • From: Jay Sleichter <jaysleichter AT yahoo.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Salad Mix Roundtable
  • Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 11:15:22 -0700 (PDT)

I thought I was the only one who hates growing salad mix.  I am glad to hear I am not the only one.  I can not harvest full bed, I have too many weed seed in my soil.  It takes too much time to pick them out of the mix after I harvest and before.  What I have found that works for me is to transplant in lettuce, every 8 to 12 inches, 3 or 4 rows per 3 or 4 foot bed. Then I just harvest the bigger outside leaves and let the rest grow. This way I can easily weed.  I also can pick twice a week, during the peak growing season. 

This year I am switching over to loose leaf mini heads and Romaine heads.  I was selling out of those last year at every market when I wasn't selling salad mix.  The labor is way less to!

Jay
 
Jay's Jellies, Produce and More
Clay Center, Kansas
www.jaysjellies.com
http://rvp.locallygrown.net/

From: Deb Taft <deb AT mobiusfields.com>
To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 9:13 AM
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Salad Mix Roundtable



I agree with Carla:  Please don't have the conversation off-list!

I hate growing lettuce mix; maybe I can learn something from y'all that would change my mind.

Deb
Mobius Fields



On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Carla Maness <manessfarm AT gmail.com> wrote:
I'd be interested in learning more about this. We grow/sell salad mix every week, but nothing close to a 100 pounds a week. I would love to see all the information posted here. I think we could all learn from it.

Carla
Perkins, OK

On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 8:05 AM, Richard Stewart <rstewart AT zoomtown.com> wrote:
Right now we are simply waiting on seeing what new regs are going to come out this spring regarding fresh produce in Ohio.

We are doing about 50# a week currently but have not scaled up to produce more because we are unclear about what we will be facing later this year. 

Currently our goal this year is to produce a varying salad mix from the end of April to the end of October with no gap in the summer.   We normally have a break during the heat of summer but this year we think we have the interest in a more bitter mix (with denser greens like mizuna, kale, and turnip, chard, radish micros being a denser part of the mix rather than what I consider a flavor/texture booster.

Richard Stewart
Carriage House Farm
North Bend, Ohio

An Ohio Century Farm Est. 1855

http://www.carriagehousefarmllc.com

On Mar 13, 2012, at 10:56 PM, John Ferree wrote:

Hey

Anyone have an interest in doing a comparison on salad mix production for 2012?  Compare methods, varieties, yields, efficiency, processing. . . 

I am imagining that this would be off list.

Looking for growers that have learned to manage for consistent weekly.  =>100#+/wk would make for a good comparison.

Let me know if you're interested. . . and be prepared to do weekly cost accounting for each mix batch.

John



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