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5/29/2021 – Side Dressed Tomatoes, Scalloped Squash, Cucumbers, & Cantaloupes in the big garden with 33-0-0. Lightly worked it in and weeded with the new pointed weeder. The corn has the first small ears so it may have been a bit late but it was beginning to look pale. The fertilizer was scattered down the […]
Continue Reading5/15/2021 – The pepper seedlings in the garden are looking less like they have a magnesium deficiency and growing. Many have blooms but are less than 12″ high. As they like a lower pH we mixed cottonseed meal in with the 8-8-8 and applied it as follows. To not fertilize the weeds between the plants […]
Continue Reading4/6/2012 – The seedlings listed below show some frost damage but seem to be coming through it. Today the weaker ones were thinned to achieve the following. Thin Delta Squash on the south end of the 2nd row to 1 every 18-24″ Thin Golden Bush Scallop Summer Squash 18-30″ apart Thin Tromboncino Squash to every […]
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3/21 & 22/2021 – In the north half we installed four rows of drip line in the second to fourth rows from the fence. Just before sowing the seeds we turned the system on for about 10 minutes to make wet spots every 12″ and sowed seeds in every other spot after loosening the soil […]
Continue Reading3/9/2021 – Bought the following seeds at G&D Farm Store. ½ oz. Paris Island Lettuce – This will be our first time to try it. ½ oz. Salad Bowl Lettuce ½ oz. Buttercruch Lettuce 1 oz. Hales Best Cantaloupe All packets are in small zip lock bags with handwritten labels.
Continue Reading3/8/2021 – Laid out the various wide row locations in the north half by tying red survey ribbon along the north and south fences measuring from the east fence. Then drove Fergie between the pairs of ribbons so the tire marks located either side of the rows. Then spread 3/4 quart—i.e. 3 pints—of 13-13-13 in […]
Continue Reading7/11/2020 – The MS PEPH peas in the 2-6 rows in the south half next to the field fence did ok and we got enough for the freezer and more than a few meals. There was a lot of dried peas, some that were getting dry and a few green ones. There was one final […]
Continue Reading5/27/2020 – Sprayed them with bifenthrin as we are seeing flies and miscellaneous bugs on all and earworms in the corn. Sprayed the corn silks on the 1st and 2nd corn. The 3rd corn is not silking yet.
Continue Reading5/23/2020 – This was the first morning we saw flying bugs and beetles among the leaves and in the flowers of the zucchini and a few in the scalloped and yellow squash. Sprayed inside the bushes completely and on top of the leaves with the Fertilome Bifenthrin. Had a little solution in the sprayer and […]
Continue Reading5/5/2020 – When watering and weeding this morning we found black spots on the 1st PEPH peas (Alternaria leaf blight) and white/tan spots and decayed areas on the yellow squash and a few on the Zucchini. Sprayed 1.5 gallons on them with the last of the Bonide and a little Southern Ag Copper based fungicide […]
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