In With The New
Anyone out there planning on making any additions to their existing crop portfolio in 2011?
If so, what and why?
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Permalink Reply by Jack Ellis on -
We are adding pole snap beans to our five regular crops (tomatoes, peppers, okra, cukes and yellow squash). This winter we have added 800 row/ft of permanent trellis for our european (Tasty Green burpless) cucumbers. We intend to use half the trellis for the cukes and the other half for snap beans and/or butter beans, rotating the two crops every year to help prevent disease. We are planting the beans rather than fallowing the spare trellis space - no use to waste it.
Speckled Butter Beans are a favorite around here, but very labor intensive to pick. The customers love them but we don't! :-) So we're going with Ky/Blue hybrid pole beans.
Jack
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Permalink Reply by Paul Rusnak on -
As always, thanks for the feedback, Jack. The snap beans sound like a good complement to your other staples.
Jack Ellis said:We are adding pole snap beans to our five regular crops (tomatoes, peppers, okra, cukes and yellow squash). This winter we have added 800 row/ft of permanent trellis for our european (Tasty Green burpless) cucumbers. We intend to use half the trellis for the cukes and the other half for snap beans and/or butter beans, rotating the two crops every year to help prevent disease. We are planting the beans rather than fallowing the spare trellis space - no use to waste it.
Speckled Butter Beans are a favorite around here, but very labor intensive to pick. The customers love them but we don't! :-) So we're going with Ky/Blue hybrid pole beans.
Jack
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Permalink Reply by Mark Schindlbeck on -
Haven't gone through the catalogs yet. Still waiting on a couple companies. I would like to delve into strawberries on plastic but have to research the varieties first. Need to make it as easy as possible labor wise as there are only two of us here. The boss has to ok it first too.
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