Sidedressed silver king corn again
5/21/2019 – The three rows of Silver King Corn looks pale and in need of nitrogen. Side dressed it with 34-0-0 + a little lime.
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Harvesting, Sidedressing, Planting, and Transplanting
5/20/2019 – We started this morning about 7 AM and worked until 9:30 in the garden and accomplished the following: Enjoyed the first-ever squash and zucchini harvest of 2 large zucchini and four 6″ long yellow squash. In the photo below are three zucchini as I picked one yesterday. Thinned the cantaloupes to two plants […]
Continue ReadingThinned 1st lima beans and sprayed Sevin on corn damage
5/19/2019 – Thinned again the first 3 rows of Nemagreen lima beans (rows 10, 11 and 12) to 3″-6″ spacing. Many that pulled up had a lot of roots so planted them deep (~3″) in the gaps. Found 8-10 corn stalks about the 7th T-Post from the south fence in Row 2 where the leaves […]
Continue ReadingGarden: Sprayed Sevin and watered
5/17/2019 – General weeding, of course, and sprayed Sevin on the peas & beans as follows: PEPH – New growth shows curling as before Kentucky Wonder Bush – Not much damage so sprayed along the top Texas Creme Peas – Young but there is a lot of leaf curling. More so that the PEPH. Mary […]
Continue ReadingSprayed fungicide on the tomatoes and tilled
5/16/2019 – After weeding the in the corn and peas, the tomatoes had dried from the dew. Sprayed them for the first time with Mancozeb fungicide. Using the Troybilt cultivator for the first time in the garden I tilled along the east weedy edge of the tomatoes in the last row next to the sand […]
Continue ReadingCultivated the Garden
5/15/2019 – Cultivated the Garden with Ted’s cultivator with the center blades removed. The oldest corn was too tall and the Kentucky Bush Peas were too wide and tall so did not cultivate them. Also did not cultivate rows 13, 14, and 15 where the new lima beans have not come up. Removed the middle […]
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Side Dressing, Planting & Pruning
5/14/22019 – Today, like the last couple of days, began at 7:30 but lasted until 11 AM. I mixed about 4 parts 34-0-0 with one part lime. Scored a shallow V trench with the hoe 6″-8″ from the 2nd and 3rd planting of corn; i.e. all the remaining corn not yet side dressed. Mary dropped […]
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Garden: Thinning, Planting, Weeding, Spraying
5/13/2019 – Mary and I worked in the garden from 7:30 to 10:00 am and accomplished the following: We thinned the 2nd and 3rd planting of peas. I pulled the corn from the row of peas and transplanted some of it in the second row of corn alongside some I transplanted a few days ago. […]
Continue ReadingSprayed squash with Sevin
5/10/2019 – The yellow squash blooms opened on the large one two days ago. Sprayed all squash with Sevin to head off squash bugs if they are starting.
Continue ReadingReseeded Gaps in the Garden
There were long pieces of the rows of G-90 corn that did not come up or more likely were missed by the planter in the first rows I ever planted. There were also a few gaps in the Silver King Corn. I loosened the soil and planted new seeds about 12″ apart. One of the […]
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