Sowed Lettuce, Mustard, and Spinach
12/15/2019 – This effort was to fill in gaps in rows where nothing germinated and to plant these seeds differently than done before where germination was poor.
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Power Company trimmed pecan trees
12/12/2019 – Alabama Power Company’s contractor trimmed small limbs from the pecan trees along the power service from the road over the fence along the east side of the front yard. Only small limbs were removed that would one day have grown up into the service drop to our house.
Continue ReadingSowed BLS Mustard in Row 10
12/11/2019 – Sowed BLS mustard in row 10 where the few DeCicco broccoli seedlings had been moved to row 9. We had 0.41″ slow rain before daylight and the soil was damp and loose. Used the shuffle hoe to freshen the top 1″ and damage the scattered weeds. Used the funnel-on-PVC pipe to place to […]
Continue ReadingMoved the few DeCicco broccoli into row 9
12/10/2019 – Moved the few DeCicco broccoli that came up in the south end of the north half of row 10 into row 9 where some Decicco had come up.
Continue ReadingRemoved Fence at Barn and Wayne Maples Began Excavating the Pond
12/10/2019 – Wayne Maples moved in his excavator yesterday afternoon and we began removal of the field fabric/barb wire fence and old posts between the barn and the pond. Today, Wayne began today excavating the pond by clearing the ditch and the old fence there and we completed the fence work along the barnyard by […]
Continue ReadingFed Garden Miracle Grow & Boron
12/9/2019 – After much reading and evaluation, we fed boron and side dressed with Miracle Grow using info assembled here. The solution was: Miracle Grow mixed at the normal rate of 1 tbps per gallon. 20-Mule-Team Borax mixed at the rate of 1 tbsp in the gallon of MG. A gallon was applied slowly from […]
Continue ReadingSprayed Spinosad on small garden and mustard in big garden
12/7/2019 – New holes in new growth appears to be occurring on the mustard and more holes in the Bok choy and chinese cabbage in the little garden. Sprayed Spinosad mostly on the top of the leaves.
Continue ReadingFed lettuce and bok choy
12/6/2019 – Mary fed the bok choy and cabbage in her garden Miracle Grow.
Continue ReadingSpread Out EJW Cabbage & filled in the Mustard
12/3/2019 – The Early Jersey Wakefield Cabbage (the first planting, in rows 7 & 8) has done well and is 4″-6″ high and needed to be thinned again. The Early Flat Dutch Cabbage has done very poorly and only 10-20 of the two half rows in row 7 & 8 have come up. Moved 31 […]
Continue ReadingHard Frost but no damage to garden
12/3/2019, 6 AM – There was a hard frost and the temperature went down to 27 F. There were no damages to anything in either garden. The plants that were not damaged in the big garden were: Florida Broadleaf Mustard – 4-6″ high Ruby Queen Beets – 1-2″ high Swiss Chard – 1″ high Early […]
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