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  • From: Richard Robinson <rrobinson AT nasw.org>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] rapid strawberry planting
  • Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2012 17:53:10 -0400

Nourse Farms in Massachusetts.

Richard Robinson
www.nasw.org/users/rrobinson/
Hopestill Farm
www.hopestill.com


On 4/9/2012 at 5:53:00 PM, BarbaraJ wrote:
> This has nothing to do with planting them, but
> where are you ordering strawberries from in large quantity?
>
> Barb
>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
> From:
>> Burke Farm
>>
> To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
>
> Sent: Monday, April 09, 2012 10:20
>> AM
> Subject: [Market-farming] rapid
>> strawberry planting
>>
>>
>> I planted 1500 strawberry plants last week. Me + 2
>> teenage helpers got it done in a 9 - 5 day with a lunch break, 1 of the
>> helpers left at noon. This included potting 300 - 400 of them into 4" pots
>> (slower than field planting) and running the drip lines out to the plants.
>> We did not use any tools other than our hands, just had the soil worked up
>> fairly well. So I think you can do it a little faster than 1 plant per
>> minute, even with fairly unskilled help.
>>
>>
> Now we're ready for some rain.. the drip lines are doing the job, but
>
>> everything out there could use the real stuff.
>>
>>
> Lisa Burke
> Farming Engineers LLC
> central IN z5b
>>
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