A farmer works in acres not hours.
10/24/2019 – Today we bought a six-pack of Bonnie Chinese Cabbage, Napa Type, at Hurley Farm & Feed store. Mary planted them in the south end of the westmost row where Ravin the horse had rolled.
Continue Reading12/23/2019 – Last week I began seeing some leaf decay and should have sprayed then. A few days later it was getting worse and still waited. Today there were much larger areas than yesterday so sprayed about the 1/2 gallon that was left of Bonibe Copper-based fungicide. It covered the north half of the two […]
Continue Reading10/23/2019 – Planted: Ruby Queen Beets in the north half of row 5 while the beets planted 2 weeks ago in the south half a just starting to show. This planting was a single row rather than a double row on the wide hill. Early Flat Dutch Cabbage in the 30 feet of the north […]
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In the Big Garden 10/20/2019, 8:00 AM – On our 24th anniversary, we planted in the big garden four vegetables. The weather forecast is for cooler evenings are regular rains as the days begin to cool with highs only in the 70’s. Counting on that being true, and that we can mitigate a hot day […]
Continue Reading10/19/2019 – Over half the okra is dead and what is producing is largely tough–even when small. There were only 3-6 pods per day for the whole row. The banana, Hungarian Hot Wax, Cayenne, and Bell peppers have been prolific although the Bells never grew larger peppers than 3″ round. It is time to plant […]
Continue Reading10/17/2019 – The Celebrity tomatoes are blooming and one has small tomatoes. The Tomatillos and peppers seedlings we grew and planted in the row look pale and so they were also fertilized. Fertilized them with a combination of fish emulsion and Miracle Grow. The Romas will be blooming soon so did not fertilize them until […]
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10/14/2019 – Given the rain two days ago and the prediction of cooler days ahead, we planted some of the south 30-ft of the rows in the north half of the large garden and seedlings. This is late planting but September and the first part of October was very hot and very dry. Some of […]
Continue Reading10/12/2019 – August was a very wet month with over 11″ of rain through the 26th. The only rain here between then and October 12 today, when 1.23″ fell, was a brief shower of 0.4″–although parts of Mobile flooded with 6″ of rain. Since mid-August, we have installed the 1″ PVC water line to the […]
Continue Reading10/11/2019 – Had bought two 3″ pots of cilantro at WalMart that had two plants each. Separated them and planted the four plants on the north side of the basil about 15″ apart. Covered the soil around them with hay straw to protect from the sun and preserve moisture. The cilantro we tried to grow […]
Continue ReadingThis experiment clearly showed that just enough hay over dirt such that you cannot see the dirt made an 8-degree difference in soil temperature.
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