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- From: E C GRANATA <elainegranata AT msn.com>
- To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Market Farming
- Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2022 00:06:14 +0000
I'd love some advice on suckering tomatoes. I sucker the indeterminates, both heirloom and cherry, but not the one determinate cherry I grow. And a local famer (Denver area) said not to sucker Romas.
Is there "science" behind suckering, or "druthers".
Almost no rain for weeks and 100 degree days. June had some 100 degree days and some of my transplants fried, even under row cover. It was brutal.
Good to hear from folks checking in after so many years of silence.
Elaine
Denver
From: Market-farming <market-farming-bounces+elainegranata=msn.com AT lists.ibiblio.org> on behalf of Road's End Farm <organic87 AT frontiernet.net>
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2022 4:41 PM To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org> Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Market Farming Nothing really stopping us from starting up again, is there, if there are people still willing to answer?
I'm hanging in here, getting old now and working mostly on my own, definitely small scale; but still doing a batch of veggies and some fruit and herbs, mostly for a small-town farmers' market, some from box order sales, and an occasional mail
order garlic over the net.
I can advise that plantskydd really is useful for discouraging deer -- as long as there's something else around they're willing to eat, and the crop's not their super favorite. Chard and beets I have to grow under low hoops with deer fence netting
over them; the lettuce ditto in the fall but in summer shadecloth instead of the deer netting.
Weather's been pretty erratic; we've got longer frost-free than we used to, but very erratic moisture -- seems it's either flood or drought. Hoping for rain tonight, but the forecast is thunderstorms, so it's hit or miss.
-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 6A now I think
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale
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Re: [Market-farming] Market Farming
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Re: [Market-farming] Market Farming,
Road's End Farm, 07/08/2022
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Re: [Market-farming] Market Farming,
Paula Mottshaw, 07/08/2022
- Re: [Market-farming] Market Farming, Ken Bezilla, 07/11/2022
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Re: [Market-farming] Market Farming,
kakerby, 07/08/2022
- Re: [Market-farming] Market Farming, Franklin Davis, 07/08/2022
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Re: [Market-farming] Market Farming,
Shoemaker, William H, 07/09/2022
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Re: [Market-farming] Market Farming,
Deb Taft, 07/11/2022
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Re: [Market-farming] Market Farming,
Mike Rock, 07/11/2022
- Re: [Market-farming] Market Farming, kakerby, 07/11/2022
- Re: [Market-farming] Market Farming, Road's End Farm, 07/11/2022
- Re: [Market-farming] Market Farming, E C GRANATA, 07/11/2022
- Re: [Market-farming] Market Farming, Shoemaker, William H, 07/12/2022
- Re: [Market-farming] tomato suckering, Road's End Farm, 07/12/2022
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Re: [Market-farming] Market Farming,
Mike Rock, 07/11/2022
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Re: [Market-farming] Market Farming,
Deb Taft, 07/11/2022
- Re: [Market-farming] Market Farming, kakerby, 07/11/2022
- Re: [Market-farming] Market Farming, bobbett AT windstream.net, 07/11/2022
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Re: [Market-farming] Market Farming,
Paula Mottshaw, 07/08/2022
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Re: [Market-farming] Market Farming,
Road's End Farm, 07/08/2022
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