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- From: "Beth Spaugh" <lists AT rhomestead.com>
- To: "'Market Farming'" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: [Market-farming] snapping tops off carrots
- Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 17:11:15 -0500
We have a technique to pull carrots quickly, but having
spent two days snapping tops off, looking at a garage full that will take until
at least midnight, and 5 more beds of carrots to go before the deep freeze next
week, any suggestions of ways to speed up snapping the tops off? I left inch
stubs last year and don’t want to do that again because they turned nasty
and stuck to the carrots and were hard to clean off. It may come to that again
just because of time, but … if there’s a faster way than having
them lined up with the roots in one direction and either grabbing a handful
with one hand and snapping the tops off with the other, or just controlling the
carrots with one hand and snapping with the other, I’d like to know. We
planted really late so I am happy/relieved to have them, but … I have
other urgent things to do within the next few days, like dismantle a hoophouse
and move it 1100 feet away over winter greens already planted in anticipation
that won’t like 15 degree nights with just row cover, and the ground is
already freezing. Beth Spaugh http://rhomestead.com
http://www.facebook.com/rhomestead "How we
eat determines, to a considerable extent, how the world is used." -
Wendell Berry "Without
power over our food, any notion of democracy is empty." - Frances Moore
Lappe It's not
that nice guys finish last. They have a whole different notion where the finish
line is. - unkonown |
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[Market-farming] snapping tops off carrots,
Beth Spaugh, 11/19/2012
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Re: [Market-farming] snapping tops off carrots,
Road's End Farm, 11/19/2012
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Re: [Market-farming] snapping tops off carrots,
Beth Spaugh, 11/19/2012
- Re: [Market-farming] digging carrots/daikon, Beth Spaugh, 11/19/2012
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Re: [Market-farming] snapping tops off carrots,
Vern and Amy, 11/22/2012
- Re: [Market-farming] snapping tops off carrots, Shoemaker, William H, 11/22/2012
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Re: [Market-farming] snapping tops off carrots,
Beth Spaugh, 11/22/2012
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Re: [Market-farming] snapping tops off carrots,
Vern and Amy, 11/23/2012
- Re: [Market-farming] snapping tops off carrots, Beth Spaugh, 11/23/2012
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Re: [Market-farming] snapping tops off carrots,
Vern and Amy, 11/23/2012
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Re: [Market-farming] snapping tops off carrots,
Beth Spaugh, 11/19/2012
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Re: [Market-farming] snapping tops off carrots,
Road's End Farm, 11/19/2012
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