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- From: "Beth Spaugh" <lists AT rhomestead.com>
- To: "'Market Farming'" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] snapping tops off carrots
- Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 17:56:14 -0500
Works wonderfully in heavy soils. Starts
with planting though. We have two old horse drawn hilling disks on an oak
bar, that I make ridges a foot high with (plan to upgrade to something heavier
next year). Then take a rake (wanted a hanging bar under the oak to level
it but didn’t get to it) and level it off to about a foot wide and
probably 8 or 9 inches tall. Plant two rows of carrot seed on top. To dig, I bought a small subsoiler last
spring. It doesn’t subsoil, but I drive it down between the two
rows of carrots and it lifts them loose. Then go back and just pull by
the huge handful, maybe a foot at a time. Figured even if we can’t get it
deep enough to subsoil it paid for itself in savings digging carrots. It also worked wonders with daikon planted
on flat ground, so might do just as well with carrots not on ridges (but my
carrots would be stumpy if not on ridges). Still have some plastic mulch down
and think I’ll try driving it along the edge and see if it lifts the soil
enough to loosen without actually catching the plastic (yes, I know they make
undercutters, but I don’t have those). We have used a middle buster for
digging potatoes, but I will try this with potatoes next year also. The subsoiler I bought was from Buckeye
Tractor (got it in the same shipment as the wonderful raised bed/plastic mulch
layter that has saved SOOO much time). Since I mentioned the mulch layer
I will share another gem I tried this year. We had 4 foot wide ground
cloth and put that down between the plastic. No weeds where we had about 100
feet of alternating plastic and ground cloth. It is $30 for 250 feet at
Sam’s Club – less than I would be paying for weeding. 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 From:
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[mailto:market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Road's End Farm On Nov 19, 2012, at 5:11 PM, Beth Spaugh wrote:
We have a technique to pull carrots quickly I've no help on the topping -- but when you have time (which from the
sound of it may not be right now): what is your fast pulling technique? and
will it work in heavier soils? -- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 6A now I think Fresh-market organic produce, small scale |
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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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