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9/2/2020 – Despite two sprayings of malathion the little black flying bugs are still all over the pumpkin and squash blooms and there appears to be more of the small shiny black eggs clustered on the leaves. Mixed Bug-No-More at 5 oz/gallon and sprayed them. Within 15 minutes or so they were moving a lot […]
Continue Reading8/30/2020 – Seeing fresh little black eggs clustered on the leaves and more leaf damage. Saw one shield bug and stomped him. Sprayed malathion on everything in the garden’s new plants that are not sprouting seedlings; i.e. the first two rows from the east and the pumpkin/squash row.
Continue Reading8/29/2020 – Side dressed the following with 33-0-0: the first row from the east that has Betternut Squash and South Anna Butternut Squash the second row from the east side that has White Scalloped Squash, Spaghetti squash, and Pascola Zucchini. the pumpkin/squash row. Some of the squash is starting to vine and the other looks […]
Continue Reading8/29/2020 – Spread 8-8-8 with Borax along each side of the rows planted beside the pumpkins. This was done as no fertilizer was placed before the hills were pulled up…screwed up. The seeds in those two rows are: Cheers Mustard Green Lucullus Swiss Chard White Icicle and Cherry Belle Radishes Savannah Hybrid Mustard The amount […]
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8/29/2020 – Sowed the west half of the 3′ x 8′ plots with Swiss Chard Northern Lights Mix and Li Ren Hybrid Pac Choi F1. Pressed 3′ long shallow furrows with the hoe handle and Mary dropped in the soaked seeds. The rows are 12″ apart for the chard and 18″ for the pac choi […]
Continue Reading8/29/2020 Danvers 126 Carrots, 3 g 1 $2.50 Perpetual Spinach (Leaf Beet Chard), 4 g 1 2.75 French Marigold, Frances’s Choice, 0.5 g 1 $2.75 Vegetable Gardening in the Southeast, The Timber Press Guide to 1 $19.95 French Marigold, Red Metamorph, 0.5 g 1 $2.75
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8/27/2020 – Sowed one row of Evergreen Bunching Onion seeds that had been soaked overnight. The row is on the south end and next to the grass. Note in the photo above the green shoots to her right next to the fence. Those are multiplying onions she planted last week.
Continue Reading8/26/2020 – Sprayed malathion on the pumpkins and the squash as there is some leaf damage and a lot of clustered small black eggs.
Continue Reading8/25/2020 – The cherry tomatoes planted along the fence in Mary’s Garden are higher than the fence and blooming, but not setting fruit. Sprayed them and the younger Better Boys with Epsom Salts at 1 Tbsp/gallon.
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8/25/2020 – The post covers the pre-soaking, pre-sprouting, and sowing. As pre-sprouting took more than a week, the spinach was not sowed in the garden until September 4. The plan and what was done was as follows. At 4:00 PM: Put the seeds cited below into 1/2 pint mason jars and added about 1/2″ water. […]
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