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5/1/2021 – Mary placed an order with The Violet Barn for the following. All text and images below are from their web site. Episcia Often referred to as “flame violets” or “chocolate soldier plant”, these gesneriads have the family’s most beautiful foliage. All grow quickly and easily. Since they readily produce stolons, they can be […]
Continue Reading5/30/2021 – Sprayed Tomatoes, Peppers, and Roses with liquid Copper (CU). Tomatoes have some black spots on their lower areas and some yellow and dead leaves and stems. Meant to mix 7 teaspoons of CU in the 1.5 gallon spray but screwed up and measured 7 tablespoons; i.e. 3 times more than the label says. […]
Continue Reading5/29/2021 – Side Dressed Tomatoes, Scalloped Squash, Cucumbers, & Cantaloupes in the big garden with 33-0-0. Lightly worked it in and weeded with the new pointed weeder. The corn has the first small ears so it may have been a bit late but it was beginning to look pale. The fertilizer was scattered down the […]
Continue Reading5/28/2021 – Mary fed the Tomatoes, Lettuce, Basil, & Onions in the Little Garden with Miracle Grow and Fish Emulsion.
Continue Reading5/27/2021 – Although peas and beans are not to be side dressed, they had no fertilizer below the hill and looked pale. Sprinkled on a handful of 13-13-13 every 6-8 feet and cultivated to kill the few weeds and blend in some of the fertilizer. Hand cultivated close to the 8-12″ high plants to further […]
Continue ReadingORDER NUMBER: 267416 DATE: May 24, 2021 TOTAL: $20.95 Order details Product Total Natsuguro Bunching Onion × 2 = 500 seeds $7.98 Benary Giant Coral Zinnia – 50 seeds × 1 Seed Quantity: 50 seeds $3.99 Benary Giant Scarlet Zinnia – 50 seeds × 1 Seed Quantity: 50 seeds $3.99 Subtotal: $15.96 Shipping: $4.99 via Orders below $49 Payment […]
Continue Reading5/19/2021 – Mixed about 0.88 oz. of Mancozeb into a half-gallon of water then added 1 tbsp. of Liquid Copper and added the second half-gallon of water. Sprayed the tomatoes in the big garden and those in Mary’s Garden. The gallon barely covered them. If the upper limbs/leaves had been sprayed thoroughly it would have […]
Continue Reading5/18/2021 – As the weather prediction is for 60°+ mornings, Gold Coast and Clemson Spineless seeds were soaked overnight. The seeds had been soaked for 20 hours, then drained, and dried lightly with a paper towel. Several had split open. Sowed in the east-most row of the north half. They were sowed 18″ apart and […]
Continue Reading5/15/2021 – The basil’s new leaves have a little yellow between the green veins so sprayed them with Epsom Salts for the second time at 1 tbsp per gallon. Moderately sprayed the tomatoes in the little garden as well as all the roses.
Continue Reading5/15/2021 – Sowed about a 10-foot long double row of Sugar Ann Snap peas in the row with the others that are about 4-6 inches high. That is the row immediately west of the long tomato row.
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