Sowed Cherry Belle Radishes
5/15/2021 – Sowed a 7-foot long double row of Cherry Belle Radishes between two volunteer zinnias in the west most row next to the wide flower bed.
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Side Dressed Peppers, Cucumbers, & Cantaloupes
5/15/2021 – The pepper seedlings in the garden are looking less like they have a magnesium deficiency and growing. Many have blooms but are less than 12″ high. As they like a lower pH we mixed cottonseed meal in with the 8-8-8 and applied it as follows. To not fertilize the weeds between the plants […]
Continue ReadingSeed Ordered from Hoss Seed
5/14/2021 Autumn Beauty Sunflower Mix × 1 100 seeds per packet $3.99 Autumn Beauty Sunflower Mix × 1 100 seeds per packet $0.00 Green Crop Bush Bean – 150 seeds $3.99 Green Crop Bush Bean – 150 seeds $0.00 Marigold Sparky Mix – 250 seeds $3.99 Jambalaya Okra – 50 seeds $4.99 Red Burgundy Okra – 50 […]
Continue ReadingTilled between wide rows in the garden
5/14/2021 – Tilled the wide rows between the tomatoes, squash and cukes in the north half of the garden. Also tilled the two empty half rows.
Continue ReadingSprayed Peppers with Epsom Salts
5/12/2021 – The peppers listed below still have yellowish areas between the darker green veins in the leaves. Looks like all the photos of the sign of Magnesium uptake deficiency. Sprayed them the second time this year with Epsom Salts mixed at 1 tbsp per gallon. The plants are still small and a few are […]
Continue ReadingSprayed Mancozeb on Tomatoes
5/10/2021 – We could get more rain tonight and tomorrow but I doubt it will be much. Sprayed Mancozeb on the tomatoes in both gardens. There were only a few lower leaves that were yellow with black spots. Removed them while spraying. We have had a lot of blooms but only a few tomatoes. The […]
Continue ReadingSide Dressed Corn & Squash
5/8/2021 – Side dress the 9 rows of G-90 Corn and the squash in the 2nd and 3rd row of the north half. The 33-0-0 was spread along both sides of the cornrows at the rate of about a handful per 5-6 feet. Then plowed in most of the white granules with Fergie and the […]
Continue ReadingCultivated the Garden
5/7/2021 – Used the cultivator still set with about a 14″ wide plant space to: breakup the sides of the pea hills and the middles. Backed down the extra-wide middles of the squash and cucumber rows and plowed to knock out the small weeds next to the plants and loosen the rain-packed soil. That left […]
Continue ReadingSowed Replacement Pepper Chile G76
The six Pepper Chile G76 F1, Anaheim style seedlings transplanted 4/26/2021 into the garden look yellow, several have lost all their leaves, and no one has grown since transplanting. There is some evidence of magnesium deficiency and hence they were sprayed two days ago with Epsom Salts. Today Mary sowed twelve replacements in the greenhouse. […]
Continue ReadingSowed Butternut Squash Seeds
5/1/2021 – As there is an empty section—about 30 feet— of the row between the tomatoes/peppers and the white scalloped squash, sowed six Betternut 401 F1 winter squash seeds as we really like butternut squash. The seeds were sowed ½ inch deep and 4 ft. apart.
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