A farmer works in acres not hours.
3/31/2023 – Disked the garden to kill the tiny weeds starting to come back, prepared the sunflower swath, and pulled up 4 rows with the hiller in the south half, west side. The rows are wider than the 42-inch standard by about 12-14 inches as the rear tire was run beside the previous track. 13-13-13 […]
Continue Reading9/5/2022 – Labor Day Ordered after getting email: To say thank you for your continued support for Hoss Tools, every order placed on Monday, 9/5 will receive a *FREE GIFT*! You will receive a 100 seed packet of Black Oil Sunflower Seeds! Product Price Quantity Subtotal Cheers Cabbage $3.99 2 $7.98 Parisian Gherkin Cucumber $3.99 1 $3.99 Max Pack […]
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2/14/2022 – Five grow boxes arrived like those Frank & Peggy use. The idea is they will provide large planting areas—as compared to pots—inside the greenhouse similar to the hoop houses where crops are planted in the ground. Today they were filled with Miracle Grow potting mix and planted with Bonnie’s lettuce, thyme, and spinach. […]
Continue Reading2/2/2022 – To get ready for plowing, we harvested the remaining cabbage and broccoli. The beets were still less than 3″ high and the spinach was small and tough. The mustard could have provided a few “messes” but Mary said NO. So, that meant it went to kill RKNs, hopefully. Disked it all in and […]
Continue Reading11/30/2021 – Fertilized the very young spinach, carrots, and radishes with 33-0-0 then water it in well. Planted three varieties of onions from HOSS in Mary’s garden in three rows near the north end. Red Creole (Southmost row) , Plethora (short center row as few plants survived), and Savannah Sweet (northmost row) are all short-day […]
Continue Reading10/29/2021 – A good cold front blew through the day before yesterday dropping 2.41 inches of rain and dropping temperatures by about 10°. Of course, soil temps have also dropped and are now in a good range for carrots and spinach. The hilled rows have had heavy rains and so I used the 4-tined hoe […]
Continue Reading5/7/2021 – Used the cultivator still set with about a 14″ wide plant space to: breakup the sides of the pea hills and the middles. Backed down the extra-wide middles of the squash and cucumber rows and plowed to knock out the small weeds next to the plants and loosen the rain-packed soil. That left […]
Continue Reading4/4/2021 – Fed Miracle Grow at 1 tbsp per gallon to: the baby spinach in both gardens and, the white and yellow onion sets in the big garden. They are 2-4″ high.
Continue Reading4/2/2021 – Loosened sides of rows north half with Fergie & cultivator then 4-tine hoe as very crusty from heavy rain. Then used the 4-tine hoe to loosen soil between the dual onion rows and along each side of the dual spinach rows. There were noticeably many more 2-leaf weeds growing in that row. That […]
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3/16/2021 – We, with Piper and Olivia’s help, planted 1 lb each of white and yellow onion sets and pre-sprouted spinach seeds in the big garden next to the flower area on the west edge next to the blooming Sand Pear Tree. The onion sets were placed with the help, for the first time, of […]
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