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7/31/2020 – Used 4-tined hoe to break up soil around the young plants. They are 6-8″ high and about 12-16″ wide given the good germination. Sprinkled about 1.5 handfuls of 8-8-8+Borax. around the blue and jack-o-lantern pumpkins and the white scalloped squash as they did not have any under them when sowed.
Continue Reading7/31/2020 – Spread 7 sacks Black Kaw manure and 8-8-8+Borax in Mary’s garden and tilled in. The tilling incorporated the additives and killed the weeds that sprouted. The intent is for the manure to reduce the chance the soil again becomes compacted and to temper the pH. The seven sacks consisted of three 1 CF […]
Continue Reading7/26/2020 – Bought Black Kaw composted manure at Home Depot and worked it in Mary’s Garden around the: 3 cherry tomato plants, 4 sweet basils, 4 pepperoncini plants, and the 12 Tai Basil plants.
Continue Reading7/24/2020 – Sprayed the remaining tomatoes with Epsom Salts as they are bearing ok. Also, fed them fish emulsion as the peppers are starting to bear and there is a fairly good number of fruit to gather tomorrow. Also, fed and sprayed the three young tomatoes, peppers, and basil in Mary’s little garden.
Continue Reading7/24/2020 Frozen 2020 Units Blueberries qts Corn – G90 & Silver King 29 qts Kentucky Wonder Beans – in vac pack 23 qts Pink Eye/Purple Hull Peas 21 qts Texas Creme Peas ?? qts Yellow Squash, in vac pack 22 qts Zucchini, in vac pack 24 qts Zucchini & Yellow Squash, in vac pack […]
Continue Reading7/23/2020 – The double row of Texas and Mississippi Creme Peas have very few good pods in the past week. There are many dried pods that occurred despite our picking them every day. Taking them out now will allow more time for decomposition before the fall sowing as well as more down time for bug […]
Continue Reading7/20/2020 – Mowed down the double rows of Jackson Wonder Lima Beans that have had a lot of flowers but no pods. Disked them well and the two rows of peas mowed last week. Also re-disked the rest of the garden that is vacant.
Continue Reading7/14/2020 – Seeing a couple of stink bugs and their damage, and it has been a little over a week since the last spraying, sprayed well the indeterminate tomatoes with Bifenthrin. The determinates are about done and have few tomatoes.
Continue Reading7/14/2020 – Some of the peppers are starting to bear and bloom again. Fed them fish emulsion at 1 Tblsp per gallon.
Continue Reading7/13/2020 – Mary completed sowing the 36 empty cells in the tray of onions & leeks sowed 6/27/2020. The onions and leeks from HOSS were Warrior Bunching Onions and Matejko Leeks.
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