A farmer works in acres not hours.
7/19/2021 – Leaf damage is still showing in the peppers (although not sure there is much new damage) and round holes and large gaps in the okra leaves. Small ants are climbing the okra and attacking the blooms. Saw small black with white strip caterpillars on the okra. Sprayed all plants to wet leaves and […]
Continue Reading7/14&16/2021 – Bushhoged the peas, corn, and cucumbers then two days later disked the litter in. This was the entire south half and the empty rows in the north half.
Continue Reading7/12/2021 – The tomatoes had a few green ones but in the past weeks only a couple would survive the bugs and excess rain to mature. In fairness to the Super Sweet Cherry tomatoes, they had a lot of green ones that could have been harvested if one wanted to spend the time every day […]
Continue Reading7/10/2021 – Gathered suckers, large and small, from the Celebrity tomato plants for the fall garden. Mary planted them in the 6″ pots that have 4-5″ of potting soil; i.e. buried deep as she put a lot of dirt in each pot. They will root in the Greenhouse.
Continue Reading7/9/2021 – Ordered Marigolds and Jalapenos from Harris Seeds. Product image Description Quantity Price Marigold Inca II Yellow F1 Seed / Untreated / 50 Seeds 1 $4.80 Pepper Everman F1 Seed / Treated / 50 Seeds 1 $7.60 Pepper Early Jalapeno Organic Seed / Organic / 50 Seeds 1 $3.00 Marigold Inca II Deep Orange […]
Continue Reading6/25/2021 – Given the 5.81 inches of rain from TS Claudette last week, finally side-dressed the tomatoes and peppers as that much rain surely washed out the nitrogen and potash. Intended to side-dress them sooner but the daily threat of rain and some we did get, is my excuse. Threw some on the white scalloped […]
Continue Reading6/15/2021 – Side-dressed the peppers with the 8-8-8 plus cottonseed meal. The last feeding was 5/15/2021—too long ago. Side dressed the Zucchini, Yellow and scalloped squash with 33-0-0. Did not side dress the Tromboncino as could not see the stem coming from the roots due to the massive amount of leaves. They have overtaken that […]
Continue Reading6/12/2021- The Sugar Ann Snap Peas did not produce well and they were not our kind of peas. So, removed them and planted the following in that north-half row just west of the tomatoes about 48 ft. from the fence. Red Burgundy Okra is a highly productive, heirloom variety that produces deep, red pods that […]
Continue Reading6/9/2021 – Sprayed the tomatoes with liquid copper for blight that is rising from the bottom. It is worse on the Celebrity than on the Best Boys. There is very little on the Super Sweet 100 Cherry tomatoes.
Continue Reading6/8/2021 – The Super Sweet 100 cherry tomatoes are not as sweet as last year and I remembered that Epsom Salts is suppose to make tomatoes taste sweeter. Articles that confirmed that memory also said it was good for peppers and I have not sprayed the peppers since the signs of magnesium deficiency went away. […]
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