A farmer works in acres not hours.
Today, 1/23/2019, a very warm day in the 70’s for late February–Mary planted in the herb bed basil and cilantro seedlings we grew from Burpee’s seeds. The packages called them “Sweet Basil” and “Common Cilantro”. The dense row of small green plants is lettuce that came up from seed planted directly into the bed. There […]
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2/20/2019 – We transplanted the tomato and bell pepper seedlings into 4″ square plastic pots in two trays. Mary planted Marigold seedlings to either side of the new camellias along the wood fence.
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Harvested: spinach, mesclun (mixed lettuces); mustard greens and the first brocolli.
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Everything is getting larger and some is almost ready to begin harvesting for dinner. In the bottom right of the photo are multiplying onions. The two rows of shoots going up the lower right side are garlic and then bulb onions. The large green leaves next to the onions are mustard greens. To the left […]
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Mary harvested mustard and swish chard to take to Houston for Piper’s 7th birthday.
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2-3-2019 – The garlic and bulb onions are coming up and everything else is getting bigger.
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2/1/2019 – Plowed the garden for the first time with the old Ford moldboard plow gotten in the swap for the old augers. Even though the ground had been disked at least 4 times, and sub soiled, there was still heavy sod in places and Fergie could not pull it through those spots at 6″ […]
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1/26/2019 – This was our first time to plant seeds to grow our own seedlings to plant outside after the last frost. We used a Burpees seed starting package of thin plastic trays and the expansion peat pellets plus egg crates with Miracle Grow’s Potting Soil for Starting Seeds.
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1/26/2019 – Mary planted the three varieties of onions that arrived yesterday from Dixondale Farms in their Short Day Sampler. The varieties were Texas 1015Y, Texas Early White, and Red Creole. There were too many for this location and so some will be planted in the back patio vegetable bed. Planted them 4″ apart per […]
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