Sprayed cabbage, radishes, & mustard for bugs
11/15/2021 – Several cabbage plants and scattered leaves in the mustard and radishes have ragged holes eaten in the leaves. Sprayed them with Spinosad.
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Planted Onion Sets from Hoss
10/30/2021 – Planted the 3 types of onions, Red Creole, Plethora, and Savannah Sweet from Hoss. They arrived just before Thanksgiving and we put them into small pots with dirt around the bundles. Waited to plant with Piper and Olivia but there was not time or the right weather. Planted them in Mary’s Garden.
Continue ReadingSowed Carrots and Spinach
10/29/2021 – A good cold front blew through the day before yesterday dropping 2.41 inches of rain and dropping temperatures by about 10°. Of course, soil temps have also dropped and are now in a good range for carrots and spinach. The hilled rows have had heavy rains and so I used the 4-tined hoe […]
Continue ReadingSoil Temperatures Aug thru Oct 2021
Date Time Big Garden °F Mary’s Garden°F AmbientAir °F Greenhouse Remarks 8/1/21 3 pm 102 98 95 Partly Cloudy 8/5/21 3 pm 96-98 in sun90 in shaded area 98 8393@1:30pm Disked this AM. Partly Cloudy 8/6/21 3:30 pm 82 @squash wet drip88 in the dry 8692@3pm Partly cloudy AM. Cloudy >3PMDay of 1st sowing for […]
Continue ReadingSowed Detroit Dark Red Beets
10/23/2021 – Sowed Detroit Dark Red Beet seed from Hurley F&F in the row 58 ft. from the fence on the west side of the north half. This is the first sowing this year. Hopefully, we will produce our first-ever beets. The pre-planting steps taken below were extracted from several beet planting processes as recorded […]
Continue ReadingSowed Mustard, Onions, & Cabbage
10/20/2021 – Sowed Savanah Mustard, Natsuguru onions, and the few Cheers cabbage seeds remaining in the packet. The mustard was sowed in the gaps where it had not come up in the row near 47′ from the fence. This is the first attempt this year to grow green onions from seed in the big garden. […]
Continue ReadingSowed Mustard, Broccoli, & Bok Choy. Planted Onions
10/7/2021 – The soil has finally gotten dry enough to work and so pulled up rows with the hiller that had been pulled up weeks ago. They had been packed down and weeds were beginning to pop up. Sowed: Savanah Mustard Green Magic Broccoli Bok Choy Planted 1 lb. multiplying onions; i.e. about 15 feet […]
Continue ReadingAgain Side Dressed the Still Yellow Corn
9/21/2021 – The last side dressing of the corn with 8-8-8 helped some but it is still very yellow toned. Drug a shallow groove with the hoe on one side of each row. Dropped in 66-0-0 and raked in the loose soil to cover it.
Continue ReadingSidedressed Corn
9/17/2021 – Sidedressed the corn—about 24% has tassels—between showers as it looks very yellow along with some leaning over due to the hard rains and wind. Spread 15-0-15 plus iron as surely the potassium washed out along with the nitrogen with the most recent 5″ of rains in the past three days. The soil is […]
Continue ReadingOrdered 3 Bundles of Short-Day Onion Plants
9/15/2021 – Ordered from HOSS Tools. The below paragraphs are from their web page. Red Creole, Plethora, and Savannah Sweet are all short-day onion varieties. Each bundle contains 50 plants. Red Creole Onion is an heirloom, open-pollinated variety that produces bright red, flat onions. This is a short-day onion that performs well in southern climates. […]
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