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To: DelaWhere
a single acre produce almost 20 tonnes of strawberries

That sounds like an awful lot of strawberries... 20x2000= 40,000 pounds?? Hmmmm... Does this sound right to you guys?

6,840 posted on 04/22/2009 9:59:07 PM PDT by TenthAmendmentChampion (Be prepared for tough times. FReepmail me to learn about our survival thread!)
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To: TenthAmendmentChampion

I know it sounds high, but it is being done....

43,560 square feet in an acre of well augmented soil, plastic mulch with permanent drip feeding irrigation - investment of about $20,000 and much much labor...

It is about inline with other crops too - corn silage, hybrid poplars and willows yield from 15 and up to 20 Tons per acre per year, tomatoes can do higher (actually 40 tons). Cabbage, head lettuce, carrots can do it too.


6,862 posted on 04/23/2009 6:22:00 AM PDT by DelaWhere ("Without power over our own food, any notion of democracy is empty." - Frances Moore Lappe)
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