Sowed Lettuce and Carrots

3/13/2020 – Piper and Olivia helped Grandma sow Salad Bowl lettuce and Danvers Carrots in Row 5 (5th row from the east side) in the north half. The seeds had soaked in water for about 24 hours. Soil temp two days ago was 69 F. The bed was prepared with the same fertilizer, 15-0-15, used […]

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Disked/Plowed Elbon Rye

3/8/2020 – In the early morning, disked the south half of the garden where the elbon rye has grown well. A surprising amount of sod and the soil clumped up a lot after disking it twice. It is perhaps a bit damp. In the afternoon, plowed the north and south half other than the center […]

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Harvested Winter Garden

2/29/2020, Leap Day – To further prepare for the spring garden today we harvested the: remaining few spinach and lettuce leaves the remaining small broccoli heads the remaining Icicle radish the remaining Daikon Radish and the carrots. The surprise was the carrots. The leaf tops never got more than 6″ tall and were not filled […]

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Ordered Seeds From SESE

1/26/2020 Product Quantity Price Total French Marigold, Lemon Drop, 0.5 g 1 $2.75 $2.75 Golden Bush Scallop Summer Squash, 3 g 1 $2.75 $2.75 Charleston Belle Sweet Bell Pepper, 0.3 g 1 $2.95 $2.95 Zinnia, State Fair Mixed Colors, 1 g 1 $2.50 $2.50 French Marigold, Spanish Brocade, 0.5 g 1 $2.75 $2.75 Danvers 126 […]

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