Fertilized Crepes with 13-13-13
7/7/2022 – Fertilized all crepes with 13-13-13 out to the drip line.
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Planted 10 Tomato and 4 Basil Rootings
7/2/2022 – Trimmed tomato suckers and end vines and tops of basil plants that have bloomed. The tomatoes are Better Boys and the Basil grew from Prospera® DMR (CG1)Organic (F1) Basil Seed. Trimmed off all lower leaves and planted them in individual pots with Peters Potting Soil mix. Watered them in with rain water and […]
Continue ReadingStink Bugs on the Tomatoes
6/8/2022 – A few stink bugs appeared on the tomatoes yesterday and today there were more. Sprayed them with Gordon’s Bug-No-More at 5 oz./gallon. Sprayed 1.5 gallons on the 75 feet of row. 6/9/2022, 7 AM – Picked tomatoes and found no stink bugs.
Continue ReadingCultivated 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.
Continue ReadingSide 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 […]
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