Planting:
This Week We are planting Lettuce, Peppers and
Marigolds.
Lettuce Collections
Salanova Foundation The collection includes
equal amounts of each of the four incised leaf types (Green Incised, Red
Incised, Green Sweet Crisp, Red Sweet Crisp) and Premier The collection includes equal
amounts of each of the four cored types (Green Butter, Red Butter, Green Oak
leaf, and Red Oak leaf)
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| Foundation Collection |
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| Premier Collection |
Sweet Peppers: Early Sunsation, Chesapeake,
Revolution, Vanguard, Torero, and Red Knight.
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| Early Sunsation |
Early Sunsation produces large, smooth fruit that mature from
dark green to bright golden-yellow at full maturity.
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| Chesapeake |
Chesapeake's fruit are blocky and four-lobed, with smooth,
thick walls and a rapid and uniform color change from green to bright red.
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| Revolution |
Revolution
pepper plants produce large to extra-large Green fruit and has a strong disease
package.
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| Vanguard |
Vanguard Peppers has excellent foliage protection from its
tall plants. Its blocky, mostly four-lobed fruit are medium to dark green in
color ripening to red.
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| Torero |
Torero is a makes a beautiful orange bell pepper. The fruit
ripen from green to a deep orange at full maturity and have a sweet taste when
fully ripe.
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| Red Knight |
Red Night. Maturing in the mid-early slot are high quality,
blocky bell fruit that measure 4-1/2 x 4-1/2" The shiny, attractive fruit
ripen from a dark green to an intense red color.
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| Marigold |
Marigold Flowers are used to repeal Insects in
the High Tunnels. (My Grandfather used them around his entire Garden he was an
organic grower when it was the normal way to grow.
Organic practices help reduce Chemicals residue, we
are doing Much more for food Safety:
“Know Your Farmer Know Your Food”
