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Thanks for the vids! I started a market garden this year, and stumbled on your content about a month ago. It has helped me reflect upon what im doing, correctly and incorrectly lol. One comment I have– Have you tried putting the sprayer suspended over the middle of the washing table like restaurant dish washing station before going through a dishwasher? Movement will be reduced and you wont ever drop the hose.
That just made me think about the plausibility of using an actual restaurant dishwasher ( like a big hobart) plumbed only with cold water, but I'm not sure on the cost nor the survivability of produce. The dish racks are very similar to what you are currently using. Thanks again.
Do you sell the beet greens? Does it have any culinary uses? Cheers
What kind of nozzle do you use for washing roots?
Hey Curtis,
Always appreciate the videos… Just wondering, do you find the chefs really value the beets much higher when you cut the greens off with scissors to make a nice clean cut like that? I always just twist and tear the greens off during harvest in the field, so all I have to do for washing is spray them off. They may not come out looking quite as neat, but I haven't heard negative feedback from chefs. Then again, I haven't asked…
Thanks
This is not exactly related to the video, but I am a starting a small market garden in northern Idaho and I just purchased a fully rebuilt and restored Troy-Bilt Horse tiller (the Garden Way kind) from the late 1970s. I got it instead of a BCS because it was much more affordable. My question is: do you think this is as good of a tiller as a BCS (minus the downside of not being able to have other attachments)?
what happened to the guy from canada with the micros
Looks like you have a pretty good system there. I plan to grow beets next year, so this came in handy…..thanks.
Great video, I've watched about 20 tonight! One thing I saw that might save you a few seconds, is when you rinsed the first batch I would have just just moved that container over and moved the empty one over, and then at the end I would have just rinsed the last batch in the container that they were in instead of dumping them into the container that you had been rinsing in all along.
Really appreciating your doing these harvest and processing videos!
I am interested in your washing table. It looks like you are recycling the water, but I am not sure how. Do you have a video about it or a description somewhere?
Just wondering do you need them to be dry before you bring them to your buyer? If yes how do you dry them?
Hello Mr Curtis, may I suggest a perhaps more effective way to remove dirt and save water (and money) by taking a big container of water and dip the whole white container in it. Shake it about and The dirt will sink :). Hope that helps you
Your videos are so useful! Thank you for the work you do, sharing this knowledge is so important.
Really cannot pinpoint why watching you wash beets is so fascinating. 🙂 Maybe I picture you being Dwight from The Office.
Where do you get the containers? the white ones with the holes. Also does anyone know where you farmers market supplies like the little green baskets?
Is that Ray Charles?
If I wanted to get them cleaner, or I had stubborn dried soil, I would put them in a washing machine, soak until soil is loose, turn on the agitator for a few minutes, spin dry, and lay out on a screen for the air dry finish. I used to buy a 50 lb. bag of carrots, soak for a day or two, drain, & juice. The long soak lets all the dirt fall off and saves a lot of scrubbing.
What is the benefit of dumping the last bunch of beets into the middle tote instead of just washing it in the tote it is already in? Does the dirt not wash out of the first one? I'm just trying to understand. Thanks in advance.
Loving the Ray Charles music in the background.
Why don't you pick them like turnips, where you rip the greens off in the field, instead of snipping them off after harvest?
Water is metered where I am (and I imagine most places in Canada). It looks like you are collecting the water that runs off while washing your product. It can be often muddy, have insects & other undesirables in it when done. What do you do with this? Pump it to bigger collection barrels & pump that out to your greenhouse crops? Given the expense of water & how much product you are washing every day, I imagine you end up with either tons of wasted water or a fair bit of work re-cycling it.
is Ray Charles farmin?
I am surprised the restaurants you sell them too don't want the beet greens. it seems to be quite popular in restaurants in my city to have these fancy salads that include beet greens or turnip greens and then spiralized raw beets in them which are okay but I've been finding this trend especially even with kale salads to to be kind of annoying because I don't necessarily want all my salad stuff spiralized beets LOL
I would love to see a video where you interview chefs that buy your product and they show you and us the end result in their dining room.
I guess people up there don't eat the beet and turnip greens?
Loved your videos! I'm started my own business! Where do you get those white containers with the small slots on the bottom?
What about rutabegas I love them and want grow them next year. What do you do with them ?
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