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 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 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 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 […]
Continue ReadingSowed Okra, Sidedressed Corn & Squash. Tied up Tomatoes.
May 14, 2022. Sowed Clemson Spineless and Red Burgundy Okra soaked in warm water starting at 5 AM. Spread 13-13-13 between the tracks then pulled up a low hill. Sowed the seeds at about 9 AM (4 hours of soaking time) using the PVC/funnel drop tool. Clemson Spineless – N/61ft Red Burgundy Okra – S/48ft […]
Continue ReadingSowed Peas and Beans
5/4/2022 – Sowed 8 rows of peas and beans as listed below. The seeds were sown 1″ deep in the top of a low hill pulled up on top of 1 pint (1 lb) of 0-0-60 spread between the tracks in each row. Sowed the peas with the HOSS seeder with plate 5 and Plate […]
Continue ReadingSowed Squash, Cucumbers, Cantaloupe, & Radishes
4/25/2022 – Sowed: Autumn Frost F1 Squash – N/68ft Honeynut Squash – N/68ft Ashley Cucumbers – S/55ft Sugar Cube Cucumbers – N/55ft Hales Best Cantaloupe – S/55ft Cherry Belle Radishes- N/68ft White Icicle Radish- N/68ft
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