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7/23/2019 – Prepared and mailed in three soil samples to the Soil Lab at Auburn University. “Big Garden, north end” – Collected about 6 samples with a hand trowel in the dirt that had been bush hogged then disked several times to begin incorporating the pea vines and bean bushes. Blended the bucket of dirt […]
Continue Reading7/23/2019 – For the fall garden, we started eight 2-inch pots with all but three of the 20 tiny tomato seeds bought at St. Elmo Feed and Seed. We started six 2-inch pots of Burpee’s Common Cilantro. The soil was about a 50:50 mixture of Miracle Grow’s Seed Starting blend and their potting soil.
Continue Reading7/22/2019 – As part of getting ready for a fall garden we will start monitoring soil temperatures. Newly collect info about the necessary temperatures for various vegetable’s germination can be viewed here. Yesterday we had over an inch of rain so the soil is very damp but not soggy. At 8 am the soil temp […]
Continue Reading7/20/2019 – The okra has produced well up to this week and it seems to have slowed down. That made me wish I had side dressed it last weekend when I should have. There was some 34-0-0 with lime left in a bucket in the grain bin and so I added a little fresh 34-0-0, […]
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7/20/2019 – Mary has been gathering flowers from the big garden for a month or so but a post is just now being made. The Beach Sunflower (Cucumber-Leaf) and Zinnias, State Fair Mixed Colors have produced many flowers. She also collected today about a 1/2-gallon of drying buds of the spent sunflowers for seeds. That […]
Continue Reading7/18/2019 – Past years we were here to gather the berries but never right after they were done when it is time to trim the bushes. Several had gotten too tall and all were out of shape. Today we took out some of the old trunks to open up the large one on the south […]
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7/17/2019 – The peas, G-90 corn, Silver King Corn, squash, and cucumbers were done and the freezer is full. Within 3 weeks we need to plant the first of the fall garden and have to get the east side ready. So, mowed them down and will disk those areas tomorrow. We have also decided to […]
Continue Reading7/16/2019 – We dug up all the clumps of multiplying onions in the south end of her yard garden. Laid them out to dry on the picnic table. Collected almost a big wheelbarrow full of older horse manure from the old garden field and spread it on the north half of the garden other than […]
Continue Reading7/15/2019 – Stink bug damage to the top side of many tomatoes has got to stop…without having to stop picking tomatoes due to insecticide downtime. So, the homemade, non-toxic spray that sounds the most complete is below. Mixed some with cayenne and sprayed this date and again on 7/17/2019 due to the rains since the […]
Continue Reading7/14/2019 – We shelled about 7 gallons of PEPH peas and have two quart bags of peas to freeze and a good mess to cook. There will be a few more to pick but they are about done. The daily rain has increased the amount of fruit rot and the bugs. The Texas Cream Peas […]
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