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4/25/2022 – Sowed: Autumn Frost F1 Squash – N/68ft Honeynut Squash – N/68ft Ashley Cucumbers – S/55ft Sugar Cube Cucumbers – N/55ft Hales Best Cantaloupe – S/55ft Cherry Belle Radishes- N/68ft White Icicle Radish- N/68ft
Continue Reading2/3/2021 – Ordered from Johnny’s Seeds: Prospera® DMR (CG1) Organic (F1) Basil Seed ID: 3597G.11 Size: Packet Price:$5.15 Sugar Cube (F1) Melon Seed ID: 4399.11 Size: Packet Price:$5.80
Continue Reading5/29/2021 – 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.
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