A farmer works in acres not hours.
1/14/2020 – Planted 10 feet of a wide row of each of the following in 2019’s row 10. Lettuce seeds germinated quickly and well after about 17 hours of soaking inside at 71 F. The soil was moist from a light rain and that also had to help the germination.
Continue Reading12/16/2019 – Sidedressed with 15-0-15 plus some borax: the 2nd 6″-8″ high mustard in the north end of rows 3 and 4; the 6″ high cabbage in rows 7 and 8; the 2″-3″ high scattered carrots in rows 11 and 12. Used the hoe to scrap a 1/2″-1″ deep groove just outside the drip line […]
Continue Reading12/15/2019 – This effort was to fill in gaps in rows where nothing germinated and to plant these seeds differently than done before where germination was poor.
Continue Reading12/11/2019 – Sowed BLS mustard in row 10 where the few DeCicco broccoli seedlings had been moved to row 9. We had 0.41″ slow rain before daylight and the soil was damp and loose. Used the shuffle hoe to freshen the top 1″ and damage the scattered weeds. Used the funnel-on-PVC pipe to place to […]
Continue Reading12/10/2019 – Moved the few DeCicco broccoli that came up in the south end of the north half of row 10 into row 9 where some Decicco had come up.
Continue Reading12/9/2019 – After much reading and evaluation, we fed boron and side dressed with Miracle Grow using info assembled here. The solution was: Miracle Grow mixed at the normal rate of 1 tbps per gallon. 20-Mule-Team Borax mixed at the rate of 1 tbsp in the gallon of MG. A gallon was applied slowly from […]
Continue Reading12/7/2019 – New holes in new growth appears to be occurring on the mustard and more holes in the Bok choy and chinese cabbage in the little garden. Sprayed Spinosad mostly on the top of the leaves.
Continue Reading12/6/2019 – Mary fed the bok choy and cabbage in her garden Miracle Grow.
Continue Reading12/3/2019 – The Early Jersey Wakefield Cabbage (the first planting, in rows 7 & 8) has done well and is 4″-6″ high and needed to be thinned again. The Early Flat Dutch Cabbage has done very poorly and only 10-20 of the two half rows in row 7 & 8 have come up. Moved 31 […]
Continue Reading12/3/2019, 6 AM – There was a hard frost and the temperature went down to 27 F. There were no damages to anything in either garden. The plants that were not damaged in the big garden were: Florida Broadleaf Mustard – 4-6″ high Ruby Queen Beets – 1-2″ high Swiss Chard – 1″ high Early […]
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