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3/9/2021 – Bought the following seeds at G&D Farm Store. ½ oz. Paris Island Lettuce – This will be our first time to try it. ½ oz. Salad Bowl Lettuce ½ oz. Buttercruch Lettuce 1 oz. Hales Best Cantaloupe All packets are in small zip lock bags with handwritten labels.
Continue Reading3/9/2021 – Mary sowed the Paris Island Lettuce seed, we bought from G&D, in a half tray with the small cells. This is our first time to try this romaine style lettuce as we were surprised to find it being sold locally in store-prepared zip locks; i.e. for the locals who are clearly planting it […]
Continue Reading3/9/2021 – Although the soil Frank gave us was to contain fertilizer, some of the seedlings appeared to need feeding. Mary fed them all with a weak Miracle Grow solution mixed 1 teaspoon in a 2-gallon watering can.
Continue ReadingSawed dead limbs from the Azalea on the east side of the path to the barn. Sprayed well with Mancozeb. This is a continuation of the issues first treated here.
Continue Reading3/8/2021 – Laid out the various wide row locations in the north half by tying red survey ribbon along the north and south fences measuring from the east fence. Then drove Fergie between the pairs of ribbons so the tire marks located either side of the rows. Then spread 3/4 quart—i.e. 3 pints—of 13-13-13 in […]
Continue Reading3/8/2021 Product image Description Quantity Price Spinach Corvair F1 OrganicSeed / Organic / 50 Seeds 1 $2.00 Zinnia Benary’s Giant MixSeed / Untreated / 50 Seeds 1 $4.10 Marking Pen – 1 Each 1 $3.95 Jiffy No Drainage Trays – 12 Count 1 $18.95 Show more Description Price My order subtotal $29.00 Shipping $7.30 Taxes […]
Continue Reading3/7/2021 – Using the first planning for this application of fertilizer and ant killer here, we: mixed 8 ounces by weight of Extinguish (that filled a Ball quart wide mouth jar almost up to the top of the “B” in Ball) into one 50 lb. bag of 15-0-15+3% iron from AGFA in the wheelbarrow with […]
Continue ReadingBeans, Kentucky Wonder Bush At 800 seeds/100′ row for four 60′ rows (240′ total) we will need about 2,000 seeds. At 100 seeds per ounce, we need to buy 20 oz. or 1.5 lbs. Cucumber, Poinsett 76 Tendergreen Mustard Giant Marconi Sweet Peppers F1 Seedlings Hale’s Best 45 cantaloupes Mississippi Silver Also known as ‘Mississippi […]
Continue Reading3/5/2021 – For the past week we have worked on weeding the beds with daylilies east of the driveway. Today we fed the daylilies the Hooker formula minus the Epsom Salts. We left out the Epsom Salts and again soil tests show the soil has Very High Magnesium levels. We put a cup of Miracle […]
Continue Reading3/5/2021 This plan is based on the January 11, 2021 soil test report here. Parameters of the Ashville Pelletized lime to be spread: Relative Neutralizing Value (RNV) – 92% Effective Calcium Carbonate Equivalent (ECCE) – 90% The following formula is from Table 3 of Interpreting Soil Test Reports from Commercial Labs: Adjusted lime recommendation (tons/acre) […]
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