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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 Reading5/1/2021 – 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.
Continue Reading5/1/2021 – Some of the pepper’s leaves in the big garden and basil’s leaves in the little garden are yellow between the veins. Based on various pieces of advice collected on this page, we sprayed them with Epsom Salts mixed one tablespoon of Epsom Salts in one gallon of water. Sprayed the top and bottom […]
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4/30/2021 – The north end of the wide sunflower row was waiting for something. This morning we bought sunflower seeds at G&D when we bought Mary’s deck rocker and 2 gallons of GrazonNext HL for the pastures. She sowed them 6″ apart in rows that were 12″ apart.
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4/28/2021 – We pulled the last of the carrots and tilled that space and the spaces that had spinach and onions. The basil she grew from seed in the new greenhouse and up-potted to 6″ pots waiting on the weather to warm up, are great plants. The had enough roots to hold the soil together […]
Continue Reading5/26/2021 – Mary sowed Pintas, Snapdragons, & Basil seeds in the greenhouse in trays.
Continue Reading4/26/2021 – Based on the early morning temperature predictions for the next 10 days being in the 60’s and the pepper seedlings in the greenhouse looking really ready, we spent the day in the big garden. The day was great and the late afternoon before the full moon was even better. What was accomplished was: […]
Continue Reading4/25/2021 – Sowed Marigolds, Zinnias, Cornflower, & Primrose in the north half, westmost wide row, of the big garden. Immediately before, I disked the 6′ wide swath to break up the rain-packed soil, and because there were scattered weeds coming up. This swath was not plowed with the new moldboard plow to see if the […]
Continue Reading4/22/2021 – Mary fed the following plants (not the seeds sowed a few day ago) Miracle Grow and Fish Emulsion. Super Sweet Tomatoes Sugar Peas Buttercrunch Lettuce Parris Island Lettuce
Continue ReadingThe two extended heavy rains in the past two weeks made the soft dirt in the garden feel like walking on concrete. Today the soil was dry enough to get on it with Fergie and the plows not create a lot of wet dirt clods that would dry hard. Moved the inner plows to __ […]
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