tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20087465855540337602024-02-22T23:43:41.666-08:00Brown Envelope SeedsMadeline McKeeverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17134381548508413567noreply@blogger.comBlogger147125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2008746585554033760.post-18009624906627028532018-06-15T03:46:00.002-07:002018-06-15T03:48:45.637-07:00Brown Envelope Seeds submission to DAFM Organic Strategy 2025<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Hoefler Text"; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Brown Envelope Seeds has been producing certified organic vegetable, herb and cereal seeds for farmers and growers since 2004, on our family farm in West Cork. We produce a catalogue of over 100 varieties every year. We produce as much seed as we can outdoors, to select for traits such as seedling vigour, weed suppression, and germination at low temperature. Those that cannot be produced outdoors are produce under plastic. There is no ordinary vegetable commonly grown here, that cannot produce seed here. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Along with the Irish Seed Savers Association we are the only vegetable seed producers in Ireland. We work with heritage and modern varieties, selecting for the lines that work best on our farm. Many of the modern varieties that have been bred for conventional agriculture do not perform well under Irish organic conditions, and we find that varieties produced under organic conditions elsewhere, as well as some of the Irish heritage varieties, perform better than their modern counterparts, especially in terms of seed production. We consistently get bet better results in outdoor seed production from Irish bred varieties, than from varieties, grown for conventional farming, in warmer and drier climates. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>On Farm Research</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Every year we trial new cultivars to compare with the lines we already carry, but this takes a lot of our resources. No vegetable vegetable variety trials, conventional or organic are carried out anywhere in the country, and growers are obliged to choose varieties based on their own experience, recommendations from other growers, or the information from the suppliers. We welcome the variety trials are now being carried out by the Seed Sovereignty UK & Ireland Program and look forward to the results. <span style="color: #005a95; font-size: 11.2px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">https://www.gaiafoundation.org/what-we-do/food-seed-and-climate-change-resilience/seed-sovereignty-uk-ireland-programme/</span><a href="http://brownenvelopeseeds.blogspot.com/2017/03/research-projects.html" target="_blank">http://brownenvelopeseeds.blogspot.com/2017/03/research-projects.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">We have hosted variety trials on the farm carried out by students on the UCC Masters degree in horticulture. It is a great pity that this course has been dropped by UCC as some very useful research came out of it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">In 2015 Paul Lyons trialed spinach varieties, and his results showed that the best performing open-pollinated variety was a variety called Abundant Bloomsdale, developed for the organic sector in the US. <span style="color: #005a95; font-size: 11.2px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">http://brownenvelopeseeds.blogspot.com/2017/03/research-projects.html</span><a href="http://brownenvelopeseeds.blogspot.com/2017/03/research-projects.html" target="_blank">http://brownenvelopeseeds.blogspot.com/2017/03/research-projects.html</a> Current EU legislation prevents us from selling this variety in large quantities.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">In 2016 Holly Cairns compared Sweetcorn varieties and demonstrated that the only variety that outperformed Golden Bantam, (which we have been growing out since 2002), was Who Gets Kissed, another variety developed in the Pacific Northwest of the US specifically for organic growers. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Due to the current seed legislation, as growers of heterogenous material we are only allowed to sell in small packets which means we can only supply small producers and home gardeners with seed. However with the new EU Organic Seed Regulation from </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 90, 149); color: #005a95;">January 2021</span><span style="font-kerning: none;">, this will change and we would like to be in a position to supply Irish organic growers. To do this we may have to register new varieties and have them DUS tested which will require external funding.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">A timetable is also to be introduced for the compulsory use of organic seed by organic growers. For various reasons, such as economies of scale and higher labour demands, organic seed is more expensive than conventional seed. The incentives for organic growers to use organic seed, especially when they have no evidence of its superior performance, is small. So we have a chicken and egg situation. No seed producer is going to produce significant amounts of organic seed unless the trials are there to show that it performs well. Trials carried out by an independent body or by organic growers will be more convincing that anything we might put on the packet. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Our work with cereals has shown that some of the Irish heritage varieties perform well under organic conditions and are in demand for small scale production. They could be developed through simple breeding programs to compete with modern varieties and due to their superior nutritional status, and eating qualities, they could be used for bread and other human food. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Conclusions:</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">1. It is possible to produce all the seed needed by the organic sector in Ireland, in Ireland. Seed self-sufficiency would provide for greater food security, and substitute for imported seed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">2. The best model for seed production would be a network of organic seed growers, specialising in a small number of varieties, with which they are familiar, as commercial organic growers, and marketed co-operatively. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">3. There is scope for exporting organic seed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">4. The production and use of organic seed by organic growers in Ireland is limited:</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">by the current seed directive </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">b. by the lack of variety trials showing how it performs on commercial organic farms</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">by the lack of training in seed production.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">5. New varieties for Irish conditions need to be produced preferably through participatory plant breeding projects, this will require co-ordination between plant breeders, farmers and seed producers. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Recommendations:</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">That funding be made available to trial vegetable varieties under Irish conditions. This is the first step in facilitating Irish organic seed production.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">That funding be made available to assess the quantity and types of seed needed for the organic sector, in Ireland, in order to plan for seed self-sufficiency. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">That further support be given to <a href="http://www.irishseedsavers.ie/" target="_blank">Irish Seed Savers Association</a> to enable them to grow out and maintain the National Seed bank. The genetic resources held in it may become invaluable in the future.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">That funding be made available for participatory plant breed programs to be initiated, addressing the seed needs of Irish growers. Using Irish heritage varieties, and modern open-pollinated varieties, produced for the organic sector elsewhere, we believe that superior lines for Irish production can be produced. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">That funding be made available to register varieties from outside the EU, shown to perform in Ireland</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">That funding be made available for the re-introduction of a third level course in organic horticulture and agriculture including seed production as well as more vocational courses around the country. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Madeline McKeever</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Ardagh</span></div>
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Madeline McKeeverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17134381548508413567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2008746585554033760.post-1658658816250524792017-03-12T11:05:00.002-07:002017-03-12T11:05:55.688-07:00Research Projects<div style="font: 7.0px "helvetica"; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Two years ago Paul Lyons did the research part of his MSc in Horticulture, at UCC, here on the farm. The project was a trial of spinach varieties. He compared various hybrid spinach varieties with each other and with some open-pollinated varieties, including the varieties we were growing for seed here. The results showed how much better the hybrids were at producing spinach by weight, and our varieties did not compare well at all. The best of the OPs was a variety developed in the US for organic production called Abundant Bloomsdale. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The project demonstrated the need for trials to be carried out for all vegetables in Ireland as none have been carried out, in recent years. It also highlighted the fact that the varieties we grow for seed are a bit random. We don't have time to carry out proper vegetable trials, and the decision to grow and subsequently save seed from a variety is usually based on 4 things.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">1 what is already in our collection/bank</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">2 seeds we pick up at swops</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">4 whatever happens to be in the garden centre</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">If a variety grows reasonably well here and then produces seed, it will go on the catalogue and supply our customers. If the feed back is good and we run out, we grow it again. For cross pollinating vegetables like brassicas, onions and beets, we do simple observational trials. We will often grow several varieties alongside, and then decide which one we like the best, and let it go to seed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">For example, this year we grew several kales and we have now decided to save seed from two of them. We are choosing them for purely commercial reasons, not because they did really well. Everyone wants the black Tuscan kale even though it is really not suitable for West Cork. The yield is poor and it was starting to flower in February, so Holly dug it up and brought it into the polytunnel so that it will feel more like it is in Italy. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Bear Necessities is productive and really frizzy and cool looking so we will keep it too. If we were going for yield it would be the flat leaf one on the left called Medeley. It has produced a ton of greens, but we already have the Asparagus kale and people are not excited by flat leaf kales.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Holly's Sweet Corn Project.</span></h3>
<span style="font-size: large;">In 2005 I bought some Golden Bantam sweetcorn seed from Stormy Hall in Yorkshire. I grew it successfully and saved the seeds. In 2006 and 2007 I tried other varieties, but they failed to mature their seed. So in 2008 I grew Golden Bantam again. Over the years it has been the only variety to produce a significant amount of seed, and because I am a squirrel by nature, I kept some seed from each year that I grew it. By 2014 I was worried that I had inbred it, as in the desperate summer of 2012, I only got seed from a small number of plants. In subsequent years it seemed short the cobs were small. So, in 2015 I bought some Golden Bantam from the US and grew it alongside my own. It was like a completely different variety. The plants were much bigger, and produced masses of pollen. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The 1st and third rows from the left were from our farm saved seed and the 2nd and fourth were from the US seed. However they silked out so late that there was no pollen left to fertilise them and they produced almost no seed, whereas my little plants all produced cobs. The photo below shows the cobs (rows 1 and 3) from our seed and (rows 2 and 4) form the US seed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Holly did her research MSc project last summer growing out several of the generations of the Golden Bantam and comparing them with a hybrid variety, and </span><span style="font-size: large;">Who gets Kissed, </span><span style="font-size: large;">a modern US variety, bred for organic production. The results were fascinating, but I will let her tell you about them herself.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The thing is:</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">There is an awful lot of very simple research that needs to be done to improve organic growing in Ireland. It is a terrible shame that the UCC MSc in Horticulture is no longer running. I hope there are other horticultural students looking for projects next year because here are a few questions I would like answered.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">1. What are the best varieties of pretty much everything to grow here? We need trials of all kinds of vegetables in all kinds of conditions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">2. Is there any point in growing plants for seed outdoors, if it is easier to do it in a polytunnel. In other words, is there a genetic or epigenetic advantage to subjecting them to the full Irish summer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">3. Can you select for germination at low temperature and significantly increase the vigour of seedlings by throwing away the propagator and sowing directly in the soil, like we did in the olden days.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">4. Is there any truth in the notion that plants with high 'nutrient density' i.e. their juice has a high Brix reading, are more resistant to slugs, and better for you, and that you can influence the 'nutrient density' with soil additives?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">5. Do Russian kales actually cross with swedes?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">6. How quickly do pea populations evolve? I have been growing Irish Green Peas, sourced from the Irish Seed Savers at least 15 years ago, every year. Do they now differ from those grown up in the County Clare?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The answers to these questions, could point to plant breeding projects that could be easily carried out. </span><br />
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<br />Madeline McKeeverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17134381548508413567noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2008746585554033760.post-28380202348935663022016-04-27T01:38:00.000-07:002016-04-27T01:38:06.089-07:00Small holding v farming<br />
I have slightly mixed feelings about curating the<a href="https://twitter.com/SmallholderIRL" target="_blank"> Smallholders Ireland</a> Twitter account. What I don't like about it is something I really don't like in myself. It is a class/race thing.<br />
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I don't think any Irish farmer likes being called a smallholder, because it is a lesser sort of being than a farmer. We never had a <a href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Edw7/8/36" target="_blank">'Smallholders Act'</a> like they had in England, instead we had <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Land_Acts" target="_blank">land reform</a> that turned tenant farmers into land owners. There is huge pride (and snobbery) attached to land ownership. The class system in Ireland is perhaps more fluid than in the UK but it is still attached to wealth, landownership and from time immemorial, to cattle.<br />
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Cattle are so much part of our psyche that the word for road, 'bothar' means cow track, and the word for boy, 'buchaill' means cowboy. Most northern Europeans have a history of cattle farming and perhaps it has made us the bullies we are internationally.<br />
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My grandfather Sam McKeever described himself as framer's son on the 1901 census form. He was 19 at the time, and in his older brother's house. His brother described himself as a 'grazier'. Later he rented a farm, and started to buy out the lease, a job my father finished. The point I am making is that most farmers rented their land from the 10,000 or so, big estates, until the 20th century.<br />
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I am the last of my immediate family still farming. Giving up my milking cows in 1999 was like a bereavement. I still keep a few beef cattle although it makes very little financial sense, but I cling onto them for sentimental reasons.<br />
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I believe the future of my farm and of all farming in Ireland will not include so many cattle, and will become more plant based, but it will be hard to take the cowboy out of the Irish farmer and replace it with a grower of crops. I also think the future of farming everywhere will be in smallholding. I would like to see a world where most people had a green patch they enjoyed, and supplied them with at least some of their food, and that the rest could be supplied by small farmers who could make a living doing what they enjoy.<br />
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So, for this week, I will embrace my inner smallholder, and share it with you.<br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px; white-space: nowrap;">farmer </b><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25px;">A person who </span><a class="w translation" href="http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/own#own__8" style="-webkit-transition: 0.4s ease, 0.4s ease; background-color: white; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.4s ease, 0.4s ease;" title="Meaning of owns">owns</a><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25px;">or</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25px;"> </span><a class="w translation" href="http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/manage#manage__2" style="-webkit-transition: 0.4s ease, 0.4s ease; background-color: white; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.4s ease, 0.4s ease;" title="Meaning of manages">manages</a><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25px;">a</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25px;"> </span><a href="http://farm./"><span style="-webkit-transition: 0.4s ease, 0.4s ease; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; line-height: 25px; transition: 0.4s ease, 0.4s ease;">farm</span><span class="punctuation" style="background-color: white; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">.</span></a></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 25px;">smallholding</span><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 25px;"> An</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25px;"> </span><span style="-webkit-transition: 0.4s ease, 0.4s ease; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; line-height: 25px; transition: 0.4s ease, 0.4s ease;">agricultural</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25px;"> </span><span style="-webkit-transition: 0.4s ease, 0.4s ease; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; line-height: 25px; transition: 0.4s ease, 0.4s ease;">holding</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25px;"> smaller than a </span><a class="w translation" href="http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/farm#farm__2" style="-webkit-transition: 0.4s ease, 0.4s ease; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.4s ease, 0.4s ease;" title="Meaning of farm">farm</a><span class="punctuation" style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">.</span></span><br />
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Madeline McKeeverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17134381548508413567noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2008746585554033760.post-45859628459711189032016-02-05T22:21:00.002-08:002016-02-06T07:09:00.408-08:00When Valentine's Day Crops Up<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I really want to write about The Organic Seed Alliance conference as Mum I are here now and we’re so full of ideas and excitement, but i don’t feel like it’s romantic enough for the month that’s in it. So, instead, I’m going to do a Valentine's day special. I’ll get back to the real seedy business next week. Time. I should probably say next time. I couldn't possibly commit to a blog a week (everyone on Facebook is getting married and having babies and I can't commit to a blog a week. Sigh). </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Once upon a fairly embarrassing time, I started seeing a nice local lad. You know West Cork lads, fierce West Cork, I don’t know how else to explain it. It was all going well, for a West Cork type (I wonder if I could somehow insert “West Cork” into every sentence, it looks like it), he took me on quite impressive dates; a play, a gig, dinner, you know, not like driving around Skibbereen in a Honda Civic pulling up next to other similar cars at petrol stations. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I had and still have the distinct feeling that dating has lost all of its fun. It’s all: “<i>don’t text him until three days after you see him</i>” and “<i>talk to her friend and ignore her</i>”. Basically, if you like them at all, act like you don’t (of course)! That will provoke feelings of insecurity and encourage them to feel bad about themselves and then they might consider being with you. Even when I speak to my male friends about crushes, the advice I get is, in short, to act like I don’t like them. I don’t want to partake in that. So in this particular instance, in an attempt to make it all fun and more “yes, I do like you” (I really liked him), and what with it being Valentine’s day and all, I decided to buy him a present, a fun one. So I got a puzzle specially made which said:</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">That’s also exactly how it looked (I’m not very creative, thankfully my flare for poetry counteracts that quite well I think), so in the end, the hardest puzzle ever. about 100 pieces, all white with some black lines on it. I broke it all up, popped it into an envelope and dropped it into his work place. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">It went down okay really, after a hard time putting it together, he kind of awkwardly bought me gin or something as a gift back. Nothing too exciting, but fun all the same. In saying that, it didn’t seem to change the nature of the dynamic that much. It was one of those situations where I wouldn’t hear from him very much, vague plans to meet that didn’t happen, you know the way. So once again, I tried a light hearted approach. At this point I could hazard a guess that he wasn’t that interested but figured he was too West Cork to tell me that (for anyone that doesn’t know a West Cork lad, they don’t often posses free flowing, open communication skills). So I thought I’d give him the opportunity to say it in a way that could have been quite lighthearted and inoffensive. I sent a message, a to do list, that went something like this:</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">At this point I was more or less done, who doesn’t want to date someone that’s a bit more proactive about you than drunken texts and vague plans that don’t happen. But he seemed a bit more proactive after that, texting a bit more and..., oh okay, now that I think about it, nothing else. In hindsight, a few texts isn’t exactly ground breaking is it. I suppose it was wishful thinking, I had the biggest crush on this guy. So I thought, I know, I won’t engage in vague annoying messaging, I’ll get him an easter present instead! I realise I’m going off topic, we’re now on to easter now but it all swings back. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">So, I got a chocolate Lindt bunny, you know the ones? They’re wrapped in gold tinfoil and they have a nice red scarf on with a little bell hanging off it. I then got a nail, heated it, and made a hole in the bunnies neck behind the scarf. I know, proper bunny boiler stuff. I then put a note, through the hole, into the bunny, which said.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">So in a state of embarrassment I was like, “<i>I better go out tonight so I’m not all like wondering if he got it, why isn’t he texting me</i>”, all that. So off I went, to distract myself. Of course he was there (he’s never there, this was really unlucky). Don’t worry, as I’m sure you’ve gathered I would, I played it cool as a cucumber. So we were having a bit of a chat in the bar and I was like “<i>did you get my presen</i>t?”. He was like “<i>The rabbit? I thought it was from you but there was no note</i>”. I told him the note was in the rabbit, and he looked quite shocked. But it turns out, he was ever so slightly more shocked than the average man with a bunny boiler on his hands because he had, having not found the note, assumed it was a gift from a weird customer and re-gifted the rabbit (mortified altogether at this point). Yes, he re-gifted it, to his friend's Mum. You might think this is where the story starts to go somewhere or climax but no, thats where it ends. Him and his friend hassled us for the night to try and find out what was in the rabbit. Of course my friends said it was a naked picture for a while. We didn’t tell them and then he stopped talking to me altogether. In fact, if he hasn't read this, he still doesn’t know what the note said. So yeah, unless he’s been having a torrid affair with his friend’s Mum ever since, that was that.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Ye’re like Holly, where is this going, you’ve just mortified yourself. Well Valentine's inspired puns and gifts, that’s where. I just wanted to share, with you all, my inspiration. Crikey, this just started to sound like an acceptance speech for some sort of an award, to clarify, I’ve sold on overall of about, drum roll, five cards. But to take you back to my first blog, I moved home in May to work with my lovely mum, we produce Irish, organic vegetable seeds and people seem to like our <a href="http://www.brownenvelopeseeds.com/category-s/1904.htm" target="_blank">gift boxes</a>, so smaller gifts seemed like a nice addition as well as a way for me to home my romantic, Valentine’s inspired genius in on more rewarding things. Like selling FIVE cards. In addition, this is an attempt to remind myself that romance can be fun (at least, occasionally, in really mitigating circumstances, If you’re outside of West Cork and a lesbian). In a weird world where “The Game” is a best seller, it doesn’t often feel like it.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Sow, let’s all act like we distinctly dislike the person we like this Valentine’s day, OR, lettuce all tell someone we like, THAT WE LIKE THEM. I know, revolutionary! and if, for some weird reason you want to say it with seeds, now you can. I sense that my story isn’t exactly inspirational and that there’s an argument there that says something about reverse psychology that goes something like “<i>Yeah Holly, that makes sense but we all want what we can’t have at the end of the day, it’s just human</i>.” But that kind of depends doesn’t it? For example, if I want chocolate, it doesn’t matter if someone is letting on that I’m not going to get any or if it’s just there, available on a table, being forced on me by someone’s Granny or something. I still want it because I like it. And like, realistically, if someone doesn’t fancy you as much as they do a piece of chocolate, you’re potentially better off without that. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">No to drunken texts and all that annoying dating stuff and hello to fun and flirting and liking each other, that’s what I say. So, here they are. A card and a relevant packet of seeds is </span>€<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">4.99 and can be purchased on our website <a href="http://www.brownenvelopeseeds.com/category-s/1906.htm" target="_blank">here</a>. Here is a poem I wrote, as a sort of introduction.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><i>This thyme I’ll try to perswede you</i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><i>to peas be mine</i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><i>but sweet</i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><i>I know it may seem like shallots</i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><i>But I leek you a lot</i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><i>and think that you’re radishingly hot</i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><i>cause you’re kind of a big dill</i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><i>That words can’t describe my feelings for you </i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">This poem can also be purchased with a gift box containing 12 packets of seeds (needless to say): barley, turnip, thyme, swede, peas, sweet corn, carrot, chard, dill, beans, squash, lettuce and courgette for €30.00.</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.brownenvelopeseeds.com/category-s/1906.htm" target="_blank">"<i>Just a sweet, kind of corny way to say, Happy Valentines Day</i>" and a packet of Golden Bantam Sweet Corn seed</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.brownenvelopeseeds.com/category-s/1906.htm" target="_blank">"<i>I was going to buy you flowers, then I thought, grow them yourself.</i>" and a packet of Sweet Pea seed</a><br />
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"<a href="http://www.brownenvelopeseeds.com/category-s/1906.htm" target="_blank"><i>Basically I think you're a hottie</i>" and a packet of mixed chilli seed</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.brownenvelopeseeds.com/category-s/1906.htm" target="_blank">"<i>Lettuce be more than friends</i>" and a packet of mixed lettuce seed</a>Madeline McKeeverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17134381548508413567noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2008746585554033760.post-87571644801666072572016-01-31T07:13:00.001-08:002016-01-31T15:18:00.932-08:00My name is Holly…..<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">My name is Holly, so maybe it’s not massively surprising that I am a botanist’s daughter. Since I came home to work on the farm and in our family business, Brown Envelope Seeds, I have met three people, through work, who have daughters named Holly. One of them was the head of Organics in the department of Agriculture, Frank Mackan. He came to speak to my class (I’m doing a masters in organic horticulture because I still get confused between parsnips and turnips and I’m meant to be the future of Irish seed production). It was good to hear him, he was very to the point if you get me, he didn’t fluff up his sentences with nice words, it actually almost sounded like all the words he did say had full stops after them. But some things he expressed stuck with me. He didn’t preach the usual sort of floaty organic stuff, he said that he thinks organic methods are liberating, a farming system that doesn’t relying on any external inputs to function. How true. How empowering. He emphasised the importance of knowing what it means personally, to each of us as it’s something we will always be questioned on and well, argued with about if we are a part of the industry. That’s when I realised, for one, wonderful, I’ll have to be defensive now until I die, and two, I didn’t know, that’s just how I was raised. Much like a “Christian” who eats meat on good </span><span style="color: #005a95; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Friday</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> and has sex before marriage with their neighbours wife, but like, still goes to church on </span><span style="color: #005a95; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Christmas</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> day and would like baptise their kids or whatever. Since then, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking and reading about conventional farming, organic farming and everything in between. So yeah, anyway, this is apparently a thing, foody/horticultural people do, they name their daughters Holly. I suspect there’s a fair amount of Roses and Poppys and the like too. Get this, my sister’s name is Autumn. She lives in New Zealand now, and when I’m having an emotional day and lecturers keep saying things like “Autumn sowing” and “Harvest in Autumn” I miss her so much I sob inside but pretend that I’m just really into the different pruning techniques for summer raspberries as apposed to Autumn ones. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">This was good food for thought in the vein of finding out what I thought about it all. My initial reaction was “OF COURSE IT CAN THAT’S HOW WE ALL LIVED BEFORE CONVENTIONAL METHODS CAME ALONG AND STARTED RECKLESSLY RUINING THE PLANET AND THE FUTURE OF NATIONAL AND GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY” Of course there are many more aspects to it than that. A lot of the literature points out that our ever increasing population (9 billion by 2050) simply cannot be fed by a system which produces lower yields. This is the framework of the opinion that large scale, high input conventional food production is absolutely necessary. (but 70% of the worlds food comes from small farms?). So you know yourself, a bit more googling. Here’s the thing, 20% of the world is starving (more than 20% are obese?) but 33% of the world’s food goes to waste. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">So yes, if we didn’t waste a third of the food produced no one would be starving. Organic yields are an estimated 80% of conventional ones (depending on the crop, some crops like soya produce higher yields). So even with 80% of the current food outputs, the world could still be fed and it could be fed organically. I think it’s also important to note that this research was sourced using meta analysis, cherry picking from different studies, to compare the two systems which may show bias towards on one side or the other. Results also changed rather radically when crops were stressed, for example, when exposed to a change in temperature. In these instances, organic crops produced higher yields. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And sure only a month or so ago wasn’t it all over the news, the climate summit, in Paris. Due to climate change the temperature is expected to rise by 2 degrees**. Agriculture, namely methane caused by ruminants, methane from stored manure, nitrous oxide from soils and farm combustion from fuels, is Ireland’s single largest contributor to the overall emissions at 32.3% of the national total. This along with high stocking rates and other methods adopted by conventional agriculture is damaging soil faster than nature can create it and it is this, precisely, that threatens the future of global food production. So in the face of scarily close climate change which will stress plants, will conventional yields prevail? Previous to the climate summit, Ireland was instructed, by the 2009 European Renewable Energy Directive to reduce GHG omissions by 50%. What happened after that? They removed! Milk quotas. Simon Covney, speaking on Newstalk at the time, described it as “<i>removing the strait jacket from Irish farmers</i>” (shudder). He also told RTE that the increase in herd numbers would happen “<i>while maintaining the existing carbon footprint of the agricultural sector</i>.” Just as well really, when in the words of the Department of Agriculture website, Ireland’s emissions are “<i>the highest of any country in the developed world</i>”. Of course, in effect, the removal of milk quotas was far from maintaining the national carbon footprint as herd numbers increased. The boom in dairy production and beef exports translates as an increase in the national dairy herd by over 300,000 cows in the next five years, simultaneously emissions from agriculture increased by 0.48 million tonnes (2.6%) in 2013, four years after the implementation of the European Union Directive. Needless to say, soil compaction and milk production increased too. So much so, that milk is loosing value faster than hippies are naming their offspring after plants, and is now cheaper than water. I’m going to say that again, milk is now cheaper than water! If you are a dairy farmer or know one, you know how all consuming, painstakingly, tremendously hard it is to be a dairy farmer and their produce is worth more to us than that. I’ve gone off on a tangent now but it all ties in. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Peak phosphorus is predicted to be between 2010 and 2030. No doubt, NPK will then peak in price too. Farmers won’t be able to afford it, especially if substances that literally fall from the sky are more valuable than their produce. By which point, and already in many cases, their natural eco-systems won’t be in the best nick, what with soil increased compaction from even higher stocking rates and years of spreading synthetic fertilisers which destroy natural bacteria and fungi which exist generously from nature to do precisely what fertilisers do. So sustainable, is defined as, “<i>able to be maintained at a certain level or rate</i>”. Conventional farming is a system which relies on inputs which are running out, that damages the very resources it needs to function, a system surely far from sustainable and I’m being asked to write thousands of words on whether organic farming is sustainable?</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The other frequently used anti organic argument is cost. Organic food is more expensive. What a nightmare! Imagine, having to pay more money for food because it was produced without animal cruelty, slave labour and chemical fertilisers, which remove the platform for which future generations need to be able to eat? Like, if that’s the case, if we have to spend, often double the money on a chicken or maybe even a full euro for a head of broccoli, we might not even be able to afford dessert. Just when the first world had really started identifying as an obese one. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">But for a second, lets just entertain the idea of a world that is fed organically. Is it possible that if organic produce supplied more than the current 1%, that with that, might come a bit of competitive pricing like any other industry? and is it potentially true that if the same amount of money, research and employment went into the development of organic fertilisation methods that yields might increase? If organic yields were as high as conventional ones and the organic produce actually sold, we could potentially still afford dessert and regular smart phone upgrades and future generation might be able to survive too. I know it’s annoying, it’s like having to pay the poor old dairy farmers for their milk, you’d swear it were worth it or something. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">So when I stop writing this blog and do something more productive with my time, like I dunno, write my essay, I think rather than discussing whether organic farming is unsustainable due to lower yields and wondering whether it can feed the world or not, I’ll probably focus a bit more on dispelling the myth that hunger in the world is a result of the shortcomings of agricultural outputs and rather, question why are people starving? (potentially something to do with the fertiliser industry providing 24,844 jobs in the US alone) and beg the question, is conventional farming sustainable?</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I’ll stop now, mainly because I’m tired but also because I’m putting the pro in procrastination now and should be doing that essay. It’s actually fairly close to the deadline and me and Mum are off to America </span><span style="color: #005a95; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">tomorrow</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> for the Organic Seed Alliance Conference (EEEEK!) I didn’t get a chance to slate Organics yet. Stay tuned for that. Holly</span></div>
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Marcus McKeever was the third of four boys born to Samuel McKeever and Helena ne Telford. <span style="text-align: start;">He is the one </span><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="text-align: start;">astride</span> the donkey, with his older brother Dermot (standing) and younger brother Robert, the baby. This must have been take in about 1925. </span></div>
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<span style="text-align: start;">He wrote this essay while at <a href="http://stcolumbas.ie/" target="_blank">St Columba's college</a> in about 1935 and he was about 15. It was during the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Irish_Trade_War" target="_blank">'Economic War'</a>. Times were hard and he left school soon afterwards to come home and work on the farm, which he did until he died in 1978. I have transcribed it to make it easier to read.</span></div>
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Managing a modern farm is a task which is not very hard when times are good but when times are bad and one does not get the prices one expects it is very hard to make both ends meet. When one has a grazing farm only, the chief thing to do is not to mind the prices one is going to get for fat cattle when buying stores, but to restock ones farm with cattle for fifty shillings or so less than the price one got for one's last fat cattle. Some people who have not much capital and want to get into farming on a big scale set three quarters of their land, and stock the last quarter with heifers which will have calves. After one year they only let half of it and after two a quarter and after three none. This is a very slow way as one hardly gets any profit for three or four years because the land is let for very little over the amount of rates and taxes on it.</div>
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The most common kind of farm is a mixed farm which is rather harder to farm than a grazing farm. The chief thing is to find which fields are suitable for tillage and which for grazing. The fields which have water on them are generally kept for grazing unless they are on a northerly slope and have a wood on the south side. The rotation for tillage is oats for the first year after a field is ploughed and sometimes a second crop is taken out the following year, but this robs the soil. Wheat may be sown instead of oats but the yield is generally bad.<br />
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After a grain crop has been grown for a year or two a root crop is planted, after the ground has been well tilled and fertilized with farmyard manure or chemical manure. The general root crops are turnips potatoes or mangolds. Turnips and mangolds are said to do the land more<br />
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After a root crop the land is generally laid down by another grain crop. Barley is the best crop to lay land down with but wheat or oats are also quite good. When wheat is being grown it is generally sown at the end of October, while oats or barley is sown in the spring. In the middle of May a mixture of grass is also sown. </div>
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After the turnips have been sown it is time to land the potatoes, which has to be done twice or three times and it is well to spray them with bluestone to prevent blight. Then comes a slack time which is generally filled by shearing the sheep.</div>
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Then the hay has to be made and the turnips grubbed and thinned. Thinning is generally done by school children in their holidays. When the hay is made there is sometimes a week or two before the harvest in which one can get a considerable amount of hay stacked. </div>
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to be dug and anytime after that the mangolds may be pulled, then the turnips. The stubbles and lea have also to be ploughed and ready for sowing.<br />
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On all modern farms both horses and tractors are used. The tractors for heavy work and the horses for lighter work. The cheap road taxation on an agricultural vehicle makes a tractor very economical. It is used for ploughing and drawing big loads while a horse is used for harrowing and light carting.<br />
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It has been a great year here, I am so thrilled to have my daughter Holly working at Brown Envelope Seeds two days a week. She is also studying for a Masters degree in Organic Horticulture. The knowledge and experience she will gain will be invaluable to business. She has organized our new logo, which was designed by</span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT47_com_zimbra_url" role="link" style="background-color: white; color: #005a95; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px; text-align: start;"><a href="http://davefitzdesign.com/" style="color: #005a95; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"> David Fitzpatrick</a></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px; text-align: start;"> It gives the seed packets and gift boxes a wonderful new look. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px; text-align: start;" /><div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px; text-align: start;">Although summer was slow to get going it seemed to go on until November and we harvested the last of the tomatoes this week. The sweetcorn which is always a challenge in an Irish summer, survived the slow spring, and the donkeys, and went on to produce a good crop. We did have some crop failures like the Trombonchino squash which didn't have any seeds in them. Here is Holly with one of them. Its the last one to ripen so we haven't opened it yet.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit;">I am wondering whether to put the pledge on all my seeds. I avoid using anything with any kind of breeders rights on it so I don't think I will upset any plant breeders. But would I be contravening any Irish laws or the European Seed directive? I can't bear to try and read it again. Its bossy tone and strange legal/euro/English make me cross. So I am asking you. ('Your honour, I did ask the interweb', will be my </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">defense).</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit;">I am also wondering when does a cultivar become different enough from its parent material to merit a new name, or too poor to keep? For example if I:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It will change. At some point it will become a different variety. The original breeder might not want me calling it by her name, or I might want to distinguish it from hers because it might become obviously different and more adapted to Irish conditions. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here is an example of how a cultivar can change: </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This year I grew Golden Bantam sweetcorn. I grow sweetcorn for seed, outdoors. Usually it fails. Often I have none on the catalogue. I am stubborn, and I am not interested in sweetcorn that needs to be in a greenhouse, it takes up way too much space. I have tried many varieties, and the only one I have EVER got to ripen its seed was Golden Bantam. Golden Bantam was released in 1902 and is still popular. It has had time to get around. I got my seed from <a href="http://www.stormy-hall-seeds.co.uk/">Stormy Hall</a> many years ago and I have grown it out several times. The plants and cobs are small and there is mostly only one cob per plant. Because I was worried that this small size was caused by inbreeding I decided to try and reinvigorate it by growing some seed, from another company alongside it. So I got some seed from a reputable American seed company and grew two rows of their corn interspersed with 2 rows from my own seed. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rows I and 3 are from my seed and 2 and 4 are from the other seed company. Rows 1 and 3 (my seed) are clearly shorter and although its not completely obvious from the photo they are also a darker colour. The point is they are very different. It is November now and the weather has turned nasty. I have harvested about half the cobs from rows 1 and 3 but none are anywhere near ready on 2 and 4. Most plants have two cobs and some three, or they would have had if they had got pollinated, but I think (from squeezing them) that they are empty. They didn't put out their silks until they had shed all their pollen. I am sure they would be fine in a place that got a real summer, but our warmish season was not enough for them. </span><br />
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<br />Madeline McKeeverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17134381548508413567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2008746585554033760.post-4927442716522011082015-05-18T08:15:00.000-07:002015-05-18T08:15:46.960-07:00Brief Glas rant.When Joe McNamee asked if I would do a rant in the garden tent at the Ballymaloe Litfest, the first thing that sprung to mind was the new Glas scheme. This is the new environmental scheme brought in to replace the REPS (Rural Environmental Protection) Scheme. I have been in REPs for 20 years and I suppose the farm is the better for it, and I am certainly the richer, but it is confusing. In REPS we were paid to do things like take cattle in off the land in the winter to avoid poaching. As a result the rough dry ground where you would normally out-winter cattle got totally covered with briars and furze bushes. In the past cattle would have picked over them in the winter and trampled them down and they would have been burned regularly.<br />
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Now, I don't agree with burning, but the regular burning of rough land in the past was better then the infernos we saw this spring when land that had not been burned for decades 'accidentally' caught fire. After 20 years of REPS, it was decided that any land not growing grass was not eligible for area aid and inspectors with fantastically detailed areal photographs came around circling any brambles or other non grass on farms and many farmers were penalised for having bushes. I was greatly peeved to be penalised €800. However, I am used to paying for my principles and did not resort to an afternoon with a box of matches. Others thought differently.<br />
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Back to the Glas scheme. I was excited to notice that there was quite a lot of money available for chough habitat, but it turned out that inspite of the fact that coughs roost all winter in my barn that I am not in a chough designated area and so I am not eligible for that. (Anyway you can't get the chough money if you are in the OFS Organic Farming scheme.) Where is the logic there? It turns out you can't get the 'Low input permanent pasture' money either if you are in the OFS. So what can I get paid for? Laying hedges is one option. I planted a 180m hedge on the top of the farm in REPS 1 which is now ready to lay but it turns out boundry hedges are ineligible, and if I plant any more trees I will loose more area aid. Why?<br />
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So what am I left with? I can plant a hedge, so long as its not where an existing field boundry exists, and I can lay one short internal field boundry hedge. I can put up bee, bat, and bird boxes, and atha is about it. So it is another scheme only big farmers can get a signifiant payment for.<br />
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Ahead of the Slow Food foraging day we are doing here on Sunday, I have been doing my homework. Here are a few of my favourite wild, or semi wild, plants growing within 100yds of the house. (There is no district line between wild and cultivated plants here and a lot of overlap between perennial vegetables, wild plants and weeds.) I am a bit concerned about two things. One, by encouraging people to eat wild plants, might I contribute to the disappearance, or reduced range of some of them, and two, will anyone enthused by the workshop poison themselves. So I am planning to show people how to identify plants and which ones are protected and rare or sensitive to a lot of picking and point out the few really poisonous things.</div>
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Everyone knows the Dandelion, <i>Taraxicum officiale, </i>and all parts of the plant are edible. The young leaves are great in salads and the roots can be cooked and eaten or dried, roasted and ground into coffee, although its a lot of work for not much coffee.</div>
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Chickweed <i>Stellaria media </i>is in no danger of disappearing around here and seeds its self all around the garden and polytunnel. I would probably eat more of it if it wasn't so stringy when you pick it, but I do snip bits off and put them into salads, and when I remember I bring an odd handful to the hens, who really do enjoy it.</div>
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Nettles <i>Urtica dioica </i>are very useful and and good for you. The tips are the least stringy to eat, and can be cooked as greens or made into soup. They are nicest in early spring before all kinds of insects move in and live in them. In fact in spring foraging it is pretty much all about leaves. Summer is for flowers, (think elder meadowsweet) and autumn is best for nuts, seeds, roots and berries, which is obvious when you think about it, but only just occurred to me.</div>
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Fat hen is really just wild quinoa, that the early Americans domesticated into a seed crop. Early Europeans ate the seeds to and they have been found in ancient bog bodies in Ireland. I have tried eating the seeds, and its a bit like eating sand, but maybe I didn't cook it right. The leaves are excellent in salads and taste a bit like Camembert.</div>
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Watercress <i>Rorippa nasturtium-aquaticum</i> is the wild plant I probably use the most. It grows in abundance in a stream on the farm. I mostly make it into soup, or cook it up with a buch of other things like nettles. It shares the stream with the deadly poisonous Water Dropwort <i>Oenanthe crocata</i>. It is a good thing to be able to tell them apart, or this might happen. </div>
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People tend to be concerned about liver fluke which can encyst in the stems of water cress, but they are mostly below the water level and are killed by cooking, or a 6% vinegar solution. </div>
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To my shame, I am not sure if this is common sorrel or Sheep's Sorrel, <i>Rumex acetos </i>or<i> aceosella, </i>hopefully someone will tell me before I have to get out Webb's flora and work it out properly. I put bits into salads and cooked greens sometimes because I think its good for me but I don't really like its sharp rhubarb taste.</div>
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Neither am I particularly keen on Wall pennywort <i>Umbilicus rupestris </i>but it looks great in a salad.</div>
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Wild Garlic or Ransoms <i>Allium ursinum </i>is great stuff for the pesto, but also good in soups salads and sandwiches, any way you want really. It is not half as strong as the smell would suggest. It is not growing wild around here, but I put some in the front garden a few years ago and now I see them popping up around the place. I expect farmers eradicated them from around here as they would flavour the milk. It would be interesting to feed it to cows and them make cheese. </div>
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The three cornered leek <i>Allium triquetrum </i>is an introduced plant, originally form the Mediterranean that enjoys West Cork hedgerows, was also introduced to my garden where it is expanding its territory, competing well with its South African neighbor <i>Montbretia</i>.</div>
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I will try and add more to this later.</div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Verdana'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">What makes us different to the other apes is our tendency to mess with food.
We cook it, ferment it, dry it, grow it and deliberately breed it for certain traits.
Our domesticated plants were developed from wild plants, over the last 10,000
years, or so, by farmers and gardeners. None of the early growers had degrees
in biotechnology, nor were there any seed companies. Yet, they created all the
important crops we use today. They grew, and exchanged their seeds, each
farmer developing landraces suited to his or her taste, culture and climate. A
huge diversity of types was developed in this way, which gradually spread
around the world. We have a vast amount of domesticated varieties, but many
are disappearing as ‘BIG-AG’ buys up small seed companies and reduces the
number of available varieties. Farmers are encouraged to buy modern hybrid
varieties that produce crops conforming to supermarket standards of
appearance rather than use traditional ones, from which they can save their
own seeds. Legislation in many countries is also making it difficult for farmers
to save their own seeds and to sell or exchange them. Most seed packets do
not give you much information about the origin of the seeds. They do not even
show country of origin. Most seeds are produced in warm dry places like
California and Israel, where the predictable weather allows seed to mature
without danger of mould. Growing seed form such environments does not
prepare them for the Irish climate. By saving you own seeds you can be a
part of the evolution of domesticated plants, care-taking rare landraces, and
adapting and creating varieties to suit your garden. It is not difficult. Always
keep the seeds from the best plants in your garden, and eat the other ones.
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<span style="font-family: 'Verdana'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">One of the first things that early farmers selected for was self-pollinating
plants. This is a useful trait when you are trying to domesticate a species as it
prevents it crossing back to its wild relatives. Crops such as wheat, peas,
common (French) beans and tomatoes are self pollinated. Seeds are produced
when ovules in the plants ovaries are fertilised by pollen. When this happens
inside a flower and the pollen and ovules come from the same plant it is called
self-pollination. These are the easiest plants to start saving seeds from as you
don’t have to worry about them crossing with other things.
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the cherries can cross pollinate. Flowers on these
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but it doesn’t really matter as most of the seeds will
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ovules. Care must be taken in saving seeds from cross-pollinated plants that
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<span style="font-family: 'Verdana'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Plants that are the same species, and have the same Latin Name are able to
cross pollinate. For instance cabbage and cauliflower were developed from the
same species of wild cabbage, and can therefor cross with each other. So, if
you want to save cauliflower seed you don’t want any other cabbage type
plants flowering within the distance insects are flying around. The other
complication with cross-pollinated plants is that a significant population of
plants is needed to prevent inbreeding. For practical purposes 20 plants is
usually enough but seed companies would often have a minimum of 200 plants
to ensure enough out-crossing. The pollen form wind-pollinated plants, such as
beets and maize, travels even further than insect pollinated plants and can
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both of their sets of chromosomes becomes almost identical. Then, two of
these inbred lines is crossed. This produces a population of almost identical
plants with one set of chromosomes from each parent. They tend to be more
vigorous and and productive than either of the parents but they are an
evolutionary dead end as the traits of the succeeding generations of plants is
unpredictable as all the genes will be randomly mixed up.
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commercial variety. They contain more genetic diversity within them than
modern varieties. This gives them more ability to adapt to new conditions such
as changing climate, diseases and pests.
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leave at room temperature for 3 days until a bit of white mould develops on
the surface. Then stir the contents and fill the container up with water. Allow
the seeds to settle at the bottom and then pour off the debris. Rinse the seed
in a sieve and dry on a windowsill on a plate, (they will stick to paper). Stir as
they are drying, to prevent them from sticking together. Remember to label
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Seeds store best when cool and dry. Seed banks freeze seed for long-term
storage and you can too, but be sure it is really dry before you do so. Large
seeds take longer to dry than small ones and if you are not sure how dry they
are, it is better not to put them in airtight containers.
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breaks into small pieces it is ready however if it squashes it is. When dry,
cucumber and pumpkin seeds will snap when bent.
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in plastic food containers will extend their lives. The table below gives a rough
estimate of how long seeds will last. Viability decreases gradually so there is
no exact time and it depends on the original quality of the seed and on the
storage conditions. Sachets of silica gel will absorb water and if enclosed with
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Madeline McKeeverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17134381548508413567noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2008746585554033760.post-21923878949974072912014-05-02T06:01:00.002-07:002014-05-02T06:06:29.177-07:00Cost of Compliance RantI have already spent a morning, this week in Teagac, rearranging my farm map, for the area aid, because not every square inch of my farm grows grass. Here and there there are gorse bushes and even briars! Last year my planner put a 'habitat' area into my area aid plan as 'foliage' and as a result I was penalised by a considerable amount. I was not the only one, and this is the reason diggers and matches are out, all over the country, burning and clearing land, that is marginally useful to agriculture, but crucial to wildlife.<br />
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As an aside, I haven't heard a cuckoo in the last few years and they used to drive me demented at this time of year. Neither (for the first time), have I seen any red bottomed bumble bees this spring. They used to be the first to arrive in my tunnel to pollinate the broad beans and crucifers. (I took this photo from http://urbanpollinators.blogspot.ie/2013/10/bumblebee-queens-fat-bottomed-girls-in.html sorry!)<br />
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Anyway, I come home from the Teagasc outing, to find an email from the <a href="http://organictrust.ie/">Organic Trust</a>, requiring me to be the subject of an audit by<a href="http://www.inab.ie/"> INAB</a>. I had never heard of INAB but I looked it up and they are a body that inspects people who inspect people. I suppose it has to be done.<br />
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So they are going to inspect the organic inspector inspecting me, in August. It turns out the inspector they want to send is a seed merchant who sells imported, conventional seeds, from his website. So I suggest that perhaps a different inspect would be more appropriate. BUT this is going to cost the Organic Trust over €2000 because that's what<a href="http://www.inab.ie/media/IR04-A10%202014.pdf"> INAB inspectors cost</a>, and they have to get this inspector inspected. Also they have been told to inspect seed producers so they have to send the auditors to me, and as I am the only seed producer growing a significant amount of seeds. HMMM…. why are they choosing seed producers this year?<br />
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Organic Trust inspectors don't get paid as much as the INAB, but in the end it is the organic farmers that pay for this, because it costs us (I think it cost me best part of €500 this year, to be certified organic), and use an organic label on our food, when it doesn't cost anything to NOT tell people that their food has been treated with chemicals.<br />
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So, now they are going to send a conventional farmer to inspect me. I am ok with that, because there is no conflict of interest, and I have found her very well informed and fair in the past. Organic inspectors cannot be organic producers which is fair enough, as there is scope for conflict of interest. And, I am sorry to cost the OT and extra €2,000. In the end consumer that pays for this, or mostly can't afford to, and so organic food becomes increasingly only available to the wealthy. I didn't go into organic farming with a view to supplying a privileged few with safe food.<br />
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When I finish REPS 4 this year, there will be a temptation to drop the symbol. My customers are largely home gardeners and small certified organic producers. It would not be profitable for me to sell seeds in large enough quantities for large commercial organic enterprises. Larger organic seed companies can produce seeds more cheaply than <a href="http://www.brownenvelopeseeds.com/">Brown Envelope Seeds</a> by growing them where labour is cheap and the weather is better, and there are a lot less inspections. <br />
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And here's another question? Why do food producers have to put their symbol numbers on what they produce, including seeds here, but there are no symbol numbers or producer numbers on imported organic seeds?<br />
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Now I better do some actual work!Madeline McKeeverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17134381548508413567noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2008746585554033760.post-64130622346437786062014-03-04T16:18:00.000-08:002014-03-04T16:18:07.057-08:00Soil temperature is the best indicator of when it is the right time to sow vegetables<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Below are the Met Eireann soil temperature figures for Sherkin Island which is the closest weather station to Brown Envelope Seeds. Although soil temperatures differ a little from year to year, especially in spring and autumn, they are fairly predictable between May and September differing by only a degree or two on average. Met Eireann statistics can be found <a href="http://www.met.ie/climate/monthly-data.asp?Num=875">here</a> By looking up the nearest station to you, you can see when soil temperature is suitable for the sowing of crops in your area, or you can use a soil thermometer - or you can use the Norfolk method. </span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Mean 10cm soil temperature for Sherkin Island</span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The figures for Mullingar show more variation than Sherkin which is to be expected, as Mullingar is further inland and both higher summer and lower winter temperatures occur, as the temperature of the sea buffers the climatic changes near the coast. </span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Jun</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Jul</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Aug</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Sep</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Oct</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Nov</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Dec</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Annual</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">2014</span></span></div>
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<td style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); height: 11px; padding: 1px; width: 26.9px;" valign="top">
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">4.4</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">5.0</span></span></div>
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<td style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); height: 11px; padding: 1px; width: 26.9px;" valign="top">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">5.2</span></span></div>
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<td style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); height: 11px; padding: 1px; width: 54.2px;" valign="top">
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">4.7</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">2013</span></span></div>
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<td style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); height: 11px; padding: 1px; width: 26.9px;" valign="top">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">4.7</span></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">4.6</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">4.8</span></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">8.3</span></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">12.6</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">16.6</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">20.1</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">18.1</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">15.0</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">12.5</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">7.2</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">6.0</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">10.9</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">2012</span></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">6.1</span></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">6.7</span></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">8.9</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">9.7</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">13.4</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">15.8</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">17.3</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">17.7</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">14.6</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">10.4</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">6.8</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">4.5</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">11.0</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">2011</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">2.7</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">6.0</span></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">7.1</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">12.3</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">13.0</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">15.5</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">17.4</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">16.3</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">14.4</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">12.1</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">9.2</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">5.1</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">10.9</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Broad beans, rocket, kale, parsnips, peas, radishes and spinach can germinate at temperatures as low as 5ºC but may take up to a month to do so. At 10ºC a higher proportion of seeds will germinated and maximum germination of crops will be a lot faster than at 5ºC. As soil temperature reach 10ºC sometime in April or May crops such as beet, cabbage, lettuce, onions and leeks, will germinate but growth will be slow and the plants will be subject to more pressure from slugs and other leaf eating pests. At 15ºC degrees, french beans, carrots and sweetcorn will germinate, and plant growth will be a lot faster, so crops will have a better chance of competing with weeds. Soil temperatures in a polytunnel will be several degrees higher and so plants started under cover will get a head start. Corn, courgettes, pumpkins, cucumbers, tomatoes and aubergines are happier at soil temperatures of 20ºC or more and will do a lot better under cover. In a good summer they will have a chance outside and by choosing cold tolerant short season varieties chances of success are improved. </span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The next table shows the germination of different vegetables at different temperatures. </span></span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The number in brackets is the number of days to reach the level of germination. Most seeeds will germinate between 15 and 25</span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Crops</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">0ºC</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">5ºC</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">10ºC</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">15ºC</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">20ºC</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">35ºC</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Asparagus</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 0</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 0</span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 61(53)</span></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 80(24)</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 88(15)</span></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">95(</span><span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">10</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">)</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 79(12)</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 37(19)</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Beans, lima</span></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 0</span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 0</span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 1</span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 52(31)</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 82(18)</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">90(</span><span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">7</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">)</span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 88(7)</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 58.1px;" valign="middle">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 2</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Beans, snap</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 0</span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 0</span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 1</span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 97(16)</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 90(11)</span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">97(</span><span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">8</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">)</span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 47(6)</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 58.1px;" valign="middle">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 39(6)</span></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Beets</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 0</span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 53(42)</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 72(17)</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 88(10)</span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 90(6)</span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">97(</span><span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">5</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">)</span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 89(5)</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 58.1px;" valign="middle">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 35(5)</span></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Cabbage</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 0</span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 27</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 78(15)</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 93(9)</span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 0(6)</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 99(</span><span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">5</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">)</span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 0(4)</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 58.1px;" valign="middle">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 0</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 75.5px;" valign="middle">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Carrots</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 0</span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 48(51)</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 93(17)</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 95(10)</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 96(7)</span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">96(</span><span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">6</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">)</span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 95(6)</span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 58.1px;" valign="middle">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 74(9)</span></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Cauliflower</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 0</span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 0</span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 58(20)</span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 60(10)</span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 0(6)</span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">63(</span><span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">5</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">)</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 45(5)</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 0</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Celery</span></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 0</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 72(41)</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 70(16)</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 40(12)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">97(</span><span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">7</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">)</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 65</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 0</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 58.1px;" valign="middle">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 0</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Cucumber</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 0</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 0</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 0</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 95(13)</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 99(6)</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 99(4)</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">99(</span><span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">3</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">)</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 58.1px;" valign="middle">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 99(3)</span></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Eggplant</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 0</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 0</span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 0</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 0</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 21(13)</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 53(8)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 60(</span><span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">5</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">)</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 58.1px;" valign="middle">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 0</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 75.5px;" valign="middle">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Lettuce</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 98(49)</span></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 98(15)</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 98(7)</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 99(4)</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 99(3)</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 99(</span><span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">2</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">)</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 12(3)</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 58.1px;" valign="middle">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 0</span></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Muskmelon</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 0</span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 0</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 0</span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 0</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 38(8)</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 94(4)</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">90(</span><span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">3</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">)</span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 58.1px;" valign="middle">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 0</span></span></div>
</td>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 75.5px;" valign="middle">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Okra</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 0</span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 0</span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 0</span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 74(27)</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 89(17)</span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 92(13)</span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">88(</span><span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">7</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">)</span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 58.1px;" valign="middle">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 85(6)</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 75.5px;" valign="middle">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Onions</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 90(136)</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 98(31)</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 98(13)</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 98(7)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">99(</span><span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">5</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">)</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 97(4)</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 91(4)</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 73(13)</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Parsley</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 0</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 0</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 63(29)</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 0(17)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">69(</span><span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">14</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">)</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 64(13)</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 50(12)</span></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 0</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Parsnips</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 82(172)</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 87(57)</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 79(27)</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 85(19)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">89(</span><span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">14</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">)</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 77(15)</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 51(32)</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 1</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Peas</span></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 0</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 89(36)</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 94(14)</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 93(9)</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 93(8)</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">94(</span><span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">6</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">)</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 86(6)</span></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 0</span></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Peppers</span></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 0</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 0</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 1</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 70(25)</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 96(13)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 98(</span><span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">8</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">)</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 95(8)</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 70(9)</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Radish</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 0</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 42(29)</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 76(11)</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 97(6)</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 95(4)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">97(</span><span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">4</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">)</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 95(3)</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 58.1px;" valign="middle">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 0</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Spinach</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 83(63)</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 96(23)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">91(</span><span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">12</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">)</span></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 82(7)</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 52(6)</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 28(5)</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 32(6)</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 47(22)</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 97(12)</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 97(7)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">98(</span><span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">4</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">)</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 91(4)</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Tomatoes</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 82(43)</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 98(14)</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 98(8)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">97(</span><span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">6</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">)</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 83(6)</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 46(9)</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Turnips</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 1</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 14</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 79(5)</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 98(3)</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 99(2)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">100(</span><span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">1</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">)</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 99(1)</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 17</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 94(12)</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 90(5)</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 92(4)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">96(</span><span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">3</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I hope this will help people decide when to sow their seeds. </span></div>
Madeline McKeeverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17134381548508413567noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2008746585554033760.post-34008572495649411322014-01-29T03:42:00.000-08:002014-01-29T03:42:28.164-08:00Useful table of germination temperatures<span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 12px; letter-spacing: 0px;">Those of you who remember when summers were always sunny, and potatoes came in stones, will be able to convert Farrenheit to Centigrade, and be able to </span><span style="font-size: 12px;">understand</span><span style="font-size: 12px; letter-spacing: 0px;"> this. For the youth, 68 is the </span><span style="font-size: 12px;">temperature</span><span style="font-size: 12px; letter-spacing: 0px;"> of your living room when you are in need of a jumper, but not a coat. 32 is the temperature your shots come at, so you can't taste them, and 95 is almost body temperature. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 12px; letter-spacing: 0px;">I lifted this table off the internet somewhere and I </span><span style="font-size: 12px;">apologise</span><span style="font-size: 12px; letter-spacing: 0px;"> to whoever put it there for not </span><span style="font-size: 12px;">acknowledging</span><span style="font-size: 12px; letter-spacing: 0px;"> them. It indicates what temperature seeds germinate best at. It is important to note that seeds like tomatoes, cucumbers, etc, need a nice warm place and will not come up in a cold greenhouse in early spring. Likewise, some seeds such as those of lettuce and spinach, land cress and winter purslane will not germinate at high temperatures and need to be chilled for a while. </span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>32ºF</b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>41ºF</b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>50ºF</b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>59ºF</b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>68ºF</b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>77ºF</b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>86ºF</b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>95ºF</b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 61(53)</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 80(24)</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 88(15)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">95(</span><span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">10</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">)</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 79(12)</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 37(19)</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Beans, lima</span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 1</span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 52(31)</span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 82(18)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">90(</span><span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">7</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">)</span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 88(7)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 58.1px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 2</span></div>
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<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Beans, snap</span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 1</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 97(16)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 90(11)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">97(</span><span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">8</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">)</span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 47(6)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 58.1px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 39(6)</span></div>
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<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Beets</span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 53(42)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 72(17)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 88(10)</span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 90(6)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">97(</span><span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">5</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 89(5)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 58.1px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 35(5)</span></div>
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<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Cabbage</span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 27</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 78(15)</span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 93(9)</span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0(6)</span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 99(</span><span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">5</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0(4)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 58.1px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 75.5px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Carrots</span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 48(51)</span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 93(17)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 95(10)</span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 96(7)</span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">96(</span><span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">6</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">)</span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 95(6)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 58.1px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 74(9)</span></div>
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<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Cauliflower</span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 58(20)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 60(10)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0(6)</span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">63(</span><span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">5</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 45(5)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 58.1px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
</td>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 75.5px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Celery</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 72(41)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 70(16)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 40(12)</span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">97(</span><span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">7</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 65</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 58.1px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
</td>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 75.5px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Cucumber</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 95(13)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 99(6)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 99(4)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">99(</span><span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">3</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 58.1px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 99(3)</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 75.5px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Eggplant</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 21(13)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 53(8)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 60(</span><span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">5</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 58.1px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 75.5px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Lettuce</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 98(49)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 98(15)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 98(7)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 99(4)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 99(3)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 99(</span><span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">2</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 12(3)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 58.1px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 75.5px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Muskmelon</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 38(8)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 94(4)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">90(</span><span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">3</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 58.1px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 75.5px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Okra</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 74(27)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 89(17)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 92(13)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">88(</span><span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">7</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 58.1px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 85(6)</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 75.5px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Onions</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 90(136)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 98(31)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 98(13)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 98(7)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">99(</span><span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">5</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 97(4)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 91(4)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 58.1px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 73(13)</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 75.5px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Parsley</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 63(29)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0(17)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">69(</span><span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">14</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 64(13)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 50(12)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 58.1px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 75.5px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Parsnips</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 82(172)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 87(57)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 79(27)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 85(19)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">89(</span><span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">14</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 77(15)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 51(32)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 58.1px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 1</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 75.5px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Peas</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 89(36)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 94(14)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 93(9)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 93(8)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">94(</span><span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">6</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 86(6)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 58.1px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 75.5px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Peppers</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 1</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 70(25)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 96(13)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 98(</span><span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">8</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 95(8)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 58.1px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 70(9)</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 75.5px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Radish</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 42(29)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 76(11)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 97(6)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 95(4)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">97(</span><span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">4</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 95(3)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 58.1px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 75.5px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Spinach</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 83(63)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 96(23)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">91(</span><span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">12</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 82(7)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 52(6)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 28(5)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 32(6)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 58.1px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 75.5px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Sweet Corn</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 47(22)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 97(12)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 97(7)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">98(</span><span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">4</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 91(4)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 58.1px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 88(3)</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 75.5px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Tomatoes</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 82(43)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 98(14)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 98(8)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">97(</span><span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">6</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 83(6)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 58.1px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 46(9)</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 75.5px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Turnips</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 1</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 14</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 79(5)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.6px; width: 48.2px;" valign="middle">
<div style="font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 98(3)</span></div>
</td>
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I am the owner of one of Ireland's few commercial seed production businesses. I am very concerned about the <span style="color: #004a4a; font-family: Times; text-align: -webkit-left;"><span style="font-family: Lucida Sans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"> </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #355e00; font-family: Times; text-align: -webkit-left;"><span style="font-family: Lucida Sans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><a href="http://www.seed-sovereignty.org/PDF/EU_Comm_Draft_on_plant_reprodutive_material.pdf">Draft Proposal for a regulation of the marketing of plant reproductive material</a></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #004a4a; font-family: Times; text-align: -webkit-left;"><span style="font-family: Lucida Sans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><a href="http://www.seed-sovereignty.org/PDF/EU_Comm_Draft_on_plant_reprodutive_material.pdf">,</a> </span></span></span></span>written by DG Sanco for the Commission of the EU.</div>
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This legislation would make much of what we do illegal. It puts the future of farming into the hands of large corporations who have a track record of reducing the number of cultivars available. In a time of changing climate, both economic and environmental, farmers need as many choices as possible when deciding which crops to grow. </div>
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The climate of Ireland is distinct from anywhere else, and therefore needs cultivars adapted to it. Our native varieties cultivated for up to 5,000 years were almost all wiped out in the 20th century. Irelands small native seed bank, guarded by the Irish Seed Savers Association, is woefully underfunded, and there is very little research into new crops being undertaken by Teagasc, Irish univeristies or other governement funded bodies. </div>
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I urge you to vote against the proposal, because the loss of biodiversity which would result from this legislation would create long term food insecurity here, and in the rest of Europe. It is very short sighted to rely on profit motivated multinationals to care for the diversity of agricultural seeds husbanded by 10,0000 years of farming.</div>
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Once a month, usually on a Sunday, we join a group of friends to help out on one of our farms. We have been doing this for a couple of years now and it means we get a group of about eight people here every six months or so. We have painted houses, weeded forestry trees, done lots of fencing, cut down trees, and this time we planted a bed of willows for <a href="http://www.myguideireland.com/basketry-and-organic-farm">Martin and Yvonne</a> who are basket makers in the Borlin valley, near Kealkil.</div>
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We cut the willows into pieces about 10" long and then using an piece of rebar to make holes we plked them through the plastic about 1' apart.</div>
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Willows soaking in the stream before use.<br />
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The meitheal is a great way to get to know people in a different way than you would get to know people in a completely social context. It is also a great way to get a big job done, that would be daunting on your own. We just work for the afternoon and then the hosts make a meal for everyone.Madeline McKeeverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17134381548508413567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2008746585554033760.post-36944294197277666612013-04-14T03:35:00.002-07:002013-04-14T03:37:49.768-07:00The evolution of the gardener.Phase 1 Ape.<br />
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Small children we do not plan for the future, they eat what they find - like the jungle apes we evolved from.<br />
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As they become teenagers, children start to venture out with other young people. They roam around in packs, playing team sports. They collect food from fridges, without doing anything to refill them. This is the hunting and gathering phase.<br />
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Next they go to Australia for two years - and drive all around it in a car, recreating the nomadic phase of our evolution.<br />
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Next they settle down somewhere permanent, with a garden. The lawn is the farm, mowed with care every Saturday. There is a population explosion.<br />
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The children leave home, and they start gardening in earnest. This is the final phase of evolution.</div>
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<br />Madeline McKeeverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17134381548508413567noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2008746585554033760.post-71477924644748089132013-04-08T02:06:00.000-07:002013-04-08T02:27:50.539-07:00Vavilov and MasterkabinOne of my teachers in college was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._A._Webb">D.A.Webb,</a> who not only taught us taxonomic botany but also a course called 'The origin of cultivated plants'. In it, he introduced us to Nikolai <a href="https://vimeo.com/26072111">Vavilov</a> the Russian scientist who travelled the world collecting cultivated plants for the first agricultural gene bank. His story which you can see a little through the link on his name is as sad as it is heroic.<br />
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His photo will be in my new office as an inspiration every morning.</div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">Up to now the hub of Brown Envelop Seeds has been the front room of our old house, but I have ordered a Masterkabin which will become the seed bank and office, and it is arriving on Thursday. </span></div>
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It will look something like this but with the window in the end (not very glamourous but hopefully dry and rodent proof). I am so excited.</div>
Madeline McKeeverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17134381548508413567noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2008746585554033760.post-41872466755665371372013-04-07T11:08:00.000-07:002013-04-07T11:08:31.546-07:00Rotavating the 'Million Trurnip' field The field was barely dry enough to rotovate on Friday, but having looked at the weather forecast, I decided to do it anyway. Here are before and after photos.<br />
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There were potatoes on the piece this side of the polytunnel last year, and this year it will be peas if it ever stops raining again.<br />
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This rock knocked one arm of the rotovator out of the tractor which slowed things down a bit.<br />
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This is the same field on the 8th of April last year. </div>
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On a good note the lettuce is way ahead of last year.Madeline McKeeverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17134381548508413567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2008746585554033760.post-89017589741780809812013-04-05T23:41:00.000-07:002013-04-05T23:55:54.352-07:00Propagating from Seed<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Seeds are a plant’s way of moving around. They are also its way of evolving. Inside each one is an embryo containing genetic material from each of its parents and a store of food. In monocotyledons the energy is stored in the endosperm of the seed and in dicotyledons it is in the first two leaves which are folded up inside the seed. The bigger and fresher a seed is the more energy it has and the better its chances of survival. Because seeds are alive they respire, which takes energy. As they age, they loose energy, and this process is faster in warm, damp conditions. This is why seeds are best stored cool and dry. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Seeds are in a state of dormancy when dry, and for most, all that is needed for them to germinate is warmth and moisture. For a few, dormancy must be broken down by time, chilling or by causing some damage to the seed coat. In a few cases light is also necessary. </span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">It is easy to test your seed for viability. Put a few seeds on kitchen paper in a plastic box or in a small pot of compost. Then put them somewhere warm and see how many come up. The table below shows what temperature is best for germinating some vegetable seeds. Note that some seeds like it cool like lettuce and spinach. The table below gives approximate times and percentages of germination at different temperatures. The numbers in brackets denote the number of days it took for germination to complete at the specified temperature.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Some seeds become dormant and will not germinate without certain conditions occurring. Winter Purslane and Lamb’s Lettuce are woodland plants and they normally produce seed in early summer. The dormancy in the seed is useful as there would be little light for the plants if they germinated immediately. The seeds will not germinate until autumn when the leaves are falling off the trees. There are two kinds of dormancy in seeds, coat imposed dormancy and embryo dormancy.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Seed coat dormancy can act by physically preventing water or oxygen absorption by the seed, or by mechanically restraining the radicle from growing out of the seed. It may also contain growth inhibitors or prevent the release of growth inhibitors from the seed. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Dormancy may be broken down in different ways. Environmental factors include drying, chilling and light. Some seeds loose their dormancy below a certain moisture level, drying them is referred to as after-ripening. Chilling may also be effective. Some seeds need a cold period while in a fully hydrated state. This applies to Lamb’s lettuce and Winter Purslane which we germinate by sowing in damp compost and then chilling in the fridge for a few days. Spinach also responds to a chill period. Many tree seeds need this treatment which is also known as stratification. The third important factor is light. Some seeds such as lettuce and docks need some light to germinate. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Seed coats may be physically weakened by abrasion, this is known as scarification. Inhibitors in seed coats may be washed off with running water, and over time, in soil, microorganisms will break down seed coats. Seeds that are eaten by birds or other animals may have their seed coats weakened by the digestive process.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px; text-align: justify;">As you can see in the table below, tomatoes peppers, aubergines and melons are unhappy below 70ºF, whereas spinach germinates best below 60ºF. The time taken to germinate (the number in brackets) also varies considerably. It tends to be shortest at high temperatures which is what you would expect as most metabolic processes speed up at high temperature. Quick to sprout are all the cabbage family members, the cucurbits and lettuce. They will all come up in three or four days in a propagator at about 20C. The tomatoes, the onion family and legumes should all be up with in a week. Peppers aubergines and members of the carrot family are slower and can take two weeks, or more. Some seeds seem to germinate better in compost than on tissue.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>32ºF</b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>41ºF</b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>50ºF</b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>59ºF</b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>68ºF</b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>77ºF</b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>86ºF</b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>95ºF</b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Asparagus</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 61(53)</span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 80(24)</span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.3px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 88(15)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">95(</span><span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">10</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">)</span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 79(12)</span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 40.1px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 9px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 37(19)</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Beans, lima</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 1</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 52(31)</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 82(18)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">90(</span><span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">7</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">)</span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 88(7)</span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 40.1px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 9px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 2</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Beans, snap</span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.3px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 1</span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 97(16)</span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.3px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 90(11)</span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">97(</span><span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">8</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">)</span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 47(6)</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 39(6)</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Beets</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 53(42)</span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 72(17)</span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 88(10)</span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.3px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 90(6)</span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">97(</span><span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">5</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">)</span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 89(5)</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 35(5)</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Cabbage</span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.3px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 27</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 78(15)</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 93(9)</span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.3px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0(6)</span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 99(</span><span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">5</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">)</span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0(4)</span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 40.1px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 9px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Carrots</span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.3px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 48(51)</span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 93(17)</span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 95(10)</span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.3px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 96(7)</span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">96(</span><span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">6</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">)</span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 95(6)</span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 40.1px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 9px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 74(9)</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Cauliflower</span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.3px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 58(20)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 60(10)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.3px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0(6)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">63(</span><span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">5</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 45(5)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 40.1px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 9px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 52.3px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Celery</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.3px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 72(41)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 70(16)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 40(12)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.3px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">97(</span><span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">7</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 65</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 40.1px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 9px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 52.3px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Cucumber</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.3px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 95(13)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.3px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 99(6)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 99(4)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">99(</span><span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">3</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 40.1px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 9px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 99(3)</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 52.3px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Eggplant</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.3px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.3px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 21(13)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 53(8)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 60(</span><span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">5</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 40.1px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 9px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 52.3px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Lettuce</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.3px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 98(49)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 98(15)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 98(7)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 99(4)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.3px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 99(3)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 99(</span><span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">2</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 12(3)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 40.1px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 9px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 52.3px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Muskmelon</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.3px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.3px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 38(8)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 94(4)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">90(</span><span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">3</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 40.1px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 9px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 52.3px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Okra</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.3px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 74(27)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.3px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 89(17)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 92(13)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">88(</span><span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">7</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 40.1px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 9px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 85(6)</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 52.3px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Onions</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.3px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 90(136)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 98(31)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 98(13)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 98(7)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.3px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">99(</span><span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">5</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 97(4)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 91(4)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 40.1px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 9px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 73(13)</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
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<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 52.3px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Parsley</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.3px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 63(29)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0(17)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.3px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">69(</span><span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">14</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 64(13)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 50(12)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 40.1px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 9px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 52.3px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Parsnips</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.3px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 82(172)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 87(57)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 79(27)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 85(19)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.3px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">89(</span><span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">14</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 77(15)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 51(32)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 40.1px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 9px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 1</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 52.3px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Peas</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.3px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 89(36)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 94(14)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 93(9)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.3px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 93(8)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">94(</span><span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">6</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 86(6)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 40.1px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 9px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 52.3px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Peppers</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.3px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 1</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 70(25)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.3px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 96(13)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 98(</span><span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">8</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 95(8)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 40.1px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 9px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 70(9)</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 52.3px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Radish</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.3px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 42(29)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 76(11)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 97(6)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.3px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 95(4)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">97(</span><span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">4</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 95(3)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 40.1px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 9px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 52.3px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Spinach</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.3px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 83(63)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 96(23)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">91(</span><span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">12</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 82(7)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.3px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 52(6)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 28(5)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 32(6)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 40.1px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 9px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 52.3px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Sweet Corn</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.3px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 0</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 47(22)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 97(12)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.3px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 97(7)</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #929292 #929292 #929292 #929292; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; height: 14.0px; width: 33.4px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-size: 8px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">98(</span><span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">4</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">)</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 91(4)</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 82(43)</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 98(3)</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 99(2)</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">100(</span><span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">1</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">)</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 90(5)</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> 92(4)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">96(</span><span style="color: #bb2d2a; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">3</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">)</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Seeds can be sown directly in the ground when conditions allow. Crops such as carrots and parsnips, do not transplant easily and are usually required in quite large numbers so are sown directly in the soil. For direct sowing a fine seed bed is necessary so that seeds can be placed evenly under the surface and not get lost. As a general rule the depth at which seeds should be sown is one to three times their diameter. If conditions are dry this can be a bit deeper. The larger the seed the deeper it can be sown.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">A drill is made the correct depth with a stick or the edge of a hoe and the seeds are spaced along it.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">They are then covered over and may be watered if the soil is dry.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Seed compost is more finely sieved than potting compost and is low in nutrients, because young seedlings have their own store of energy and nutrients. Sow seed sparingly in trays or modules to make it easier to prick out later. Gently water the top of the compost with a spray bottle or watering can fitted with a fine rose. Doing this first avoids disturbing the seed, once you have sown them.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Cover the seed lightly with compost, and if they are likely to dry our cover with a pice of plastic of paper, until they have emerged. Labeling is important so that you remember where everything is. In case the label is lost, it is also a good idea to make notes in a notebook, of where and when seeds are sown. Sowing in modules allows seedlings to be transplanted with minimal root disturbance. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">After a month or so, when the seedlings look crowded it is time to pot them on. The seedlings will have used up their internal energy store and will be producing their own leaves and photosynthates. They will now need more nutrients in the soil to grow. Potting compost is usually coarser than seed compost and can be home made using a combination of good garden compost, or farmyard manure, soil, and leaf mold. Seedlings should be handled by their leaves rather than their stems, which are more liable to get damaged. By holding onto one of the leaves and pulling gently the seedling can be eased out of the compost. It can then be put in a larger container of potting compost by making a small hole in a pot of potting compost. The compost should be gently firmed around the seedling so that the soil level is the same as it was in the original container and then carefully watered. In the same way plants can be planted out in soil. When the roots start to circulate inside the pot they are ready to out. </span></div>
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Madeline McKeeverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17134381548508413567noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2008746585554033760.post-36976149736695309612013-04-05T01:42:00.003-07:002013-04-05T12:35:46.349-07:00Home Made Chilli SauceWho would have thought there would be seed Saving in April. Here, there is some seed saving every month when you include the squash which are seeded as we eat them. This morning's seed saving exercise was the last of the Bolivian Hairy chillies. This is a different species of chilli than the normal ones, <i>Capiscum pubesens, </i>which means hairy chill. The chillies themselves are are hairless but the leaves and stems are covered by a layer of fine hairs which may account for their hardiness. These chillies have been ripening away on leafy plants all winter. The recent frosts knocked them back a bit but they are trying to leaf out again, which hopefully means I won't need to sow them again.<br />
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Actually I have tons of seed as they are the most prolific chillies I have ever grown. Perhaps there will be a world shortage of chilli seeds, if so and you have just found this blog, here is where you can buy them. http://www.brownenvelopeseeds.com/product-p/bolivian-hairy-chilli.htm<br />
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Now that the seeds are all poked out I am going to make a fermented chilli sauce with them. I will liquidise the flesh with a little water, add a teaspoon of salt and a teaspoon of sugar, put them in a jar to ferment. If I had a bit of saurkraut juice I would add that instead of water.</div>
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I usually use a corked mustard jar and a fermentation lock for the fermentation, which takes about 3 weeks. Then I strain off the liquid in a sieve, and store it in an old tamari bottle. As you can see from the dwindling supply in the bottle, we will be suffering chilli withdrawals before it is ready.<br />
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Last September I sowed again. Its a good time tow sow lettuce, because you can plant out in a polytunnel as the tomatoes are cleared out, and have a fine early crop from February to April. Then you can start again with the tomatoes and cucumbers.<br />
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At end of January they were looking pretty good, partly because the weather was pretty mild. These three are Grand Rapids, Crispmint and Ear of the Devil.</div>
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The Outregious produced the biggest heads of loose leaves that would have been great in salad bags. Outregious was bred by Frank Morton of <a href="http://www.wildgardenseed.com/product_info.php?cPath=43_72&products_id=105">Wild Garden Seeds</a>.</div>
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Soraya is a butter-head lettuce that I have had for years and kept because it has a lot of disease resistance and successfully produces seed.<br />
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Madeline McKeeverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17134381548508413567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2008746585554033760.post-64133561512552108102013-04-01T18:12:00.000-07:002013-04-01T18:12:33.079-07:00Well here goes....I am going to take up The <a href="http://thenewfarmerette.com/2013/04/01/my-april-challenge/">The NewFarmerette's Challenge</a> and write a blog a day for April. I probably start one in my head everyday anyway. One that has started in my had several times and never got any further is to say that Mike is no longer working at Brown Envelope Seeds. For the last four years he has worked with me, and been very badly paid for all his help. In spite of this the business cannot support both of us, and so, sadly, I am doing it on my own again. Sometimes we worked well together and sometimes we didn't. Living and working together is a challenge, and trying to keep any kind of business together at the moment is really hard. I want to say is thank you to Mike for all he has done for Brown Envelope Seeds and good luck with what ever he decides to do next. I could just say to him, couldn't I?<br />
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Madeline McKeeverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17134381548508413567noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2008746585554033760.post-63111143319181862352013-04-01T04:33:00.000-07:002013-04-01T04:37:18.062-07:00Masters degree in Organic Horticulture in LissardI was delighted to be invited to the presentation of Belling awards to two students at the UCC run Masters degree in Organic Horticulture in Lissard, last week.<br />
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Kitty Scully and Michael are two of the fifteen students who have almost finished the taught part of their course, and are now embarking on research projects.<br />
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According to its website the course aims to:<br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span>"<span style="background-color: white; color: #6a6561; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;">The aim of this programme is to provide students with both the scientific principles and the practical applications of organic horticulture, the growing of vegetable, fruit, herb and flower crops in a sustainable environmentally protective manner. A strong scientific foundation to organic horticulture is provided to help students apply their practical knowledge; for example, an understanding of plant form and function helps one to identify crops which grow synergistically together in inter-crops, a mainstay of organic horticulture, producing better yields together than separately. Graduates will receive training in practical organic growing, both open ground and in polytunnels, from experts in the subject, from how to select your own crop varieties to how to erect </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #6a6561; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;">a poly tunnel, for example. Because one of the factors holding back organic production in Ireland is the lack of targeted research appropriate to this country, emphasis will be placed on graduates being able to test new methods, cultivars etc. in a scientifically rigorous way, leading to a body of research knowledge from this programme of value to Irish growers"</span></h4>
West Cork which is renowned for its 'artisan' producers. The reason this area has so many such producers, seems to be because small farms in West Cork, deemed unviable between the 1960's and 1980's, came on the market and were bought by 'hippies' and 'blow-ins' who, along with Irish farmers, who married 'hippies' and 'blow-ins' have been the drivers of the artisan food movement in the area. The main winner of the Belling artisan food award last year, Veronica Steel of <a href="http://www.milleenscheese.com/index.html">Mileens</a> cheese and her husband Norman started making cheese in 1978, way out on the Beara. Millens cheese and many of the cheeses that came after it have had a close association with the UCC's Dairy Science faculty. West Cork cheeses have inspired farm house cheeses all over the country in the last thirty odd years, and it would be great if horticultural projects here could be models for other places. <br />
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I do hope the research carried out by the students will be appropriate to local growers, as we are all struggling to make a living. It is sad that probably our youngest organic producer Eric has emigrated to Canada because he can't make a good enough living. Most organic producers I know, are over 50, and most of them have some other form of income, as well as growing. There are lots of young people who would like to make a living from the land. The popularity of horticultural courses in Skibbereen, in Rossa college, and the Sutherland centre, the new horticulture degree course in CIT, which is run in conjuction with Teagasc, at Dararagh in Clonakilty, and the Permaculture design course in Kinsale clearly demonstrate this. <br />
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There are a lot of limiting factors to making a living out of organic production, the lack of research being only one of them.<br />
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Two important ones are the quality of land on organic farms and the size of the local market. Many organic growers have not come from a farming background, and bought land before they knew much about growing. Poor land makes it very hard work to make a living, but it has made some great growers. There isn't a huge market for fresh vegetables in West Cork, as the population is quite small. We tried having a co-op and sending stuff to Cork city, but that ended badly. The small size of the local market and the inaccessibility to a larger one means that organic producers are not highly mechanised. A mechanical potato or carrot harvester, or a cold store for roots, or an onion drying facility is uneconomical for a small grower. Mechanisation and scale limit local growers and keep prices high. It just about works out profitable to dig early potatoes by hand for the summer market, but local organic growers cannot compete on price, with large mechanised growers, for winter potatoes, carrots and onions. That is why they produce things like salads, which have a short shelf life and a high price.<br />
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Flower fruit and herb production have only been carried out on a very small scale, in west Cork as the market for these things, in the area, is even smaller than that of vegetables. They are crops with a short shelf life, or crops that to be economical need to be done on a large scale, mechanized, and transported to an area of larger population.<br />
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My question is: why do so many people want to learn to grow food, when it is really hard to make a living doing so?<br />
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<br />Madeline McKeeverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17134381548508413567noreply@blogger.com3