A farmer works in acres not hours.
While spraying the daylilies for Rust with Mancozeb, I sprayed the bulb onions from Dixondale and the garlic from Filigree in Mary’s yard veggie plot. Later in the day Mary fertilized both with fish emulsion with Miracle Grow.
Continue Reading4/27 & 28/2019 – On the 27th Mary put Fish Emulsion on her yard garden–other than the onions and garlic–and on the 28th she put fish emulsion plus Miracle Grow on the bulb and bunching onions and garlic.
Continue ReadingMary planted Bonnie Big Boy Hybrid Tomatoes in the gaps in the tomato row; i.e row 14. She also planted Marigold, Zinnias, and Nasturtiums in various location. In her yard veggie garden, she weeded and I used the spade to turn over the central area. Then raked it level, chopped it with the 4-tine hoe […]
Continue Reading4/25/2019 – Bought these seeds at Grand Bay Feed and Seed to finish planting the vegetable garden. Texas Cream Peas – 1/2 lb. – “Highly nutritious. Fertilize at 1/2 rate used for other vegetables; too much nitrogen limits production. Good summer cover crop. Cowpea curculio is a common pest. Maintain consistent soil moisture.” From here. […]
Continue ReadingTo replace some of our tomato seedlings that are not surviving and the jalapenos that did not come up we bought Bonnie’s plants at Lowe’s. Tomatoes – Jalapenos – Sweet Banana Peppers –
Continue Reading4/21/2019, as sundown approached on Easter Sunday – Added another hose to the ones already connected at the east end of the house and Mary watered the new seed locations. That also loosen the soil over the seeds–packed by the hard rain Thursday–and I “harvested” old hay from around the bale in the pond field […]
Continue Reading4/16/2019 – I disked again the area in the center of the garden where nothing was planted as the weeds were getting started. Leveled it nicely with the “gate drag” pulled separately from the disk and it worked a lot better. Then, went over the original hills that had not been planted with the hiller […]
Continue ReadingFirst Early AM work in the Large Garden Mary & I worked in the large veggie garden while the sun was coming up behind the trees in the neighbor’s yard. We fertilized the tomatoes and bell pepper seedlings with fish emulsion, planted cucumber; watered pepper seeds and tomatoes. I used the 4-tine hoe to break […]
Continue Reading4/12/2019 – Mary & I worked in the large veggie garden where we: fertilized the bell pepper seedlings with fish emulsion, planted cucumber; watered pepper seeds and tomatoes
Continue ReadingUsed Frank’s hiller to pull up three more rows on the north end, west side next to the tomato sets. See notes below about the issues with the planter and the small quantities of seeds appearing to not dispense well.
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