Cultivated the Peas, Beans, Cucumbers, and more
5/29/2022 – Used Fergie and the cultivator to plow the middles of the peas, beans, cucumbers, and the small squash next to the Ashley cucumbers.
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Side Dressed Corn and Squash with 13-13-13
Given the 4″+ rain this past week and the corn is tasseling and the squash blooming. I side-dressed them with 13-13-13. The idea of using a balanced fertilizer, rather than just nitrogen, is to replenish the nutrients washed out by the rain while adding nitrogen.
Continue ReadingOrdered Dahlias from OutsidePride.com
5/28/2022 – Read about Dahlias in the National Gardening newsletter and they sound like something we should try. Mary choose and ordered the ones below. Outsidepride had a wide selection and previous orders were good. Item Name Qty. Item Price Discount Subtotal Dahlia Seeds – Mignon Mix – 500 Seeds (FLOW-DAHMIX-500) 1 $4.99 ea. $0.00 $4.99 […]
Continue ReadingSprayed Mancozeb on Tomatoes & Roses; Epsom Salts on Tomatoes & Peppers
5/26/2022 – Rain for the past 3 days is sure to make the small spots of blight black spots multiply so sprayed the tomatoes with Mancozeb mixed at 1 oz./gallon. Roses also are starting to show some black spots so sprayed them with the same solution. 5/27/2022 – Sprayed Epsom Salts on Tomatoes & Peppers […]
Continue ReadingSeminole Pumpkin Seed Arrived
5/25/2022 – Seminole Pumpkin Seed arrived from SESE.
Continue ReadingThunderstorms Blew Down Corn
5/25/2022 – Thunderstorms before dawn blew down about a third of the corn.
Continue ReadingSidedressed tomatoes & Tied Up Peppers 1st Time
Side dressed tomatoes lightly with a mixture of 13-13-13 plus 0-0-60 A new tomato side-dressing mixture devised here is to reduce the N (the vines are growing fast with the 13-13-13 below the hill) while providing a high level of potassium as recommended in the link from TomatoDirt.com below. The tomatoes are healthy and grow […]
Continue ReadingMoved Cukes & Resowed Squash
5/22/2022 – The Ashley cucumbers came up well and were too thick. To thin them some were transplanted to the adjacent empty space in the same row at 12-inch spacing. The total row length is now about 30 feet. Only about half of the year-old Delta Squash seed came up. Filled in the row with […]
Continue ReadingOrdered Daylilies From Oakes
May 18, 2022, Order details RED VOLUNTEER BLACK EYED STELLA BUTTERED POPCORN NATURE BOY – 2x HAPPY RETURNS FIRST LADY BARBARA
Continue ReadingSowed Flowers in the Garden
Mary sowed marigold and zinnia seeds in the wide row on the west edge of the north half. The varieties were: Zinnia Elegans Dahlia Flowered Cherry Queen from Outside Pride (red) Zinnia Elegans Dahlia Flowered Canary Bird from Outside Pride (yellow) Marigold, French Queen Sophia from Johnny’s in 2020 Zinnia Red Beauty from SESE in […]
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