A farmer works in acres not hours.
9/17/2024 – Disked the garden well and all the dead weeds are not visible. We had rooted cuttings from the spring tomatoes and they did well on the deck until the week before they were put into the garden. For some reason, most of the leaves died and there were black spots on the stems. […]
Continue Reading9/5/2024 – Bought two Grape (Tami G) Hybrid Tomatoes and one Husky Cherry Red tomato in the grow boxes on the back patio. The cherry is in the box with the spring basil plant that survived the summer. The seedlings were grown by Bonnie and bought at Lowes.
Continue Reading9/1/2024 – Cut off 30% of old bear okra stalks. Larger older ones with few if any leaves had small green shoots that looked healthy given the fertilizing done a week or so ago and the inch of rain we had in the past week—first good rain since July 27. This is the first time […]
Continue Reading8/21/2024 – Sidedressed okra with 13-13-13. Watered it in. The splineless has been producing but now has few blooms. It has also been dry for 3+ weeks. Put the drip tube on them 2 days ago.
Continue Reading8/20/2024 – Sprayed garden 2 wks ago with Gly+24D did not damage the large crabgrass. Mix was 2 oz/gal of gly and 1 oz/gal 24D. Broadleaf did die. It was also afternoon and hot so maybe Gly evaporated too much.
Continue Reading6/17/2024 – Sidedressed both rows of okra with 33-0-0 plus about 1 Tbsp/row of Borax per the 2024 Vegetable Crop Handbook for Southeastern United States. Used wheel hoe with wobble hoe to weed and blend in fertilizer. Thunderstorms possible this afternoon.
Continue Reading6/1/2024 – The first sowing partially came up in the second row from the east. Today they are 6-8 inches high and it rained slowly this morning. Where they did come up they are too close so needed to remove every other one. Used the hand trowel to scoop them out, placing it in my […]
Continue Reading5/30/2024 – Sprayed tomatoes with Liquid Copper Fungicide at 5 oz/gal and the Cucumbers that have just started to bear with Epsom salts at 1 tbsp/gallon. This was the first spraying of fungicide on the tomatoes. Likely should have started at least a week ago.
Continue Reading5/29/2024 – 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. That product is no longer made. The active ingredient was zeta-permethrin. Ordered Bug Buster from HOSS to replace it.
Continue Reading5/25/2024 – Peppers have a little bacterial leaf spot. Sprayed with 3 tsp/gal of Liquid Copper Fungicide. Had an hour before sprayed them with Epsom Salts at 1 tbsp/gal. Followed advice here – https://www.producegrower.com/news/use-caution-with-copper-fungicides-and-spray-surfactants-in-vegetables-and-fruits/. See extract below. Copper fungicides work to kill pathogen cells by denaturing enzymes and other critical proteins. However, copper can also […]
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