A farmer works in acres not hours.
3/13/2020 – Piper and Olivia helped Grandma sow Salad Bowl lettuce and Danvers Carrots in Row 5 (5th row from the east side) in the north half. The seeds had soaked in water for about 24 hours. Soil temp two days ago was 69 F. The bed was prepared with the same fertilizer, 15-0-15, used […]
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2/29/2020, Leap Day – To further prepare for the spring garden today we harvested the: remaining few spinach and lettuce leaves the remaining small broccoli heads the remaining Icicle radish the remaining Daikon Radish and the carrots. The surprise was the carrots. The leaf tops never got more than 6″ tall and were not filled […]
Continue Reading12/16/2019 – Sidedressed with 15-0-15 plus some borax: the 2nd 6″-8″ high mustard in the north end of rows 3 and 4; the 6″ high cabbage in rows 7 and 8; the 2″-3″ high scattered carrots in rows 11 and 12. Used the hoe to scrap a 1/2″-1″ deep groove just outside the drip line […]
Continue Reading12/15/2019 – This effort was to fill in gaps in rows where nothing germinated and to plant these seeds differently than done before where germination was poor.
Continue Reading11/02/2019 – Planted in the north half: April Cross Radish – Row 11, north 10 ft. of the south half Emperor Spinach – Row 11, north end of the north half Buttercrunch Lettuce – Row 12, north end of the south half Rainbow Carrots – Row 12, south end of the south half King Richard […]
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In the Big Garden 10/20/2019, 8:00 AM – On our 24th anniversary, we planted in the big garden four vegetables. The weather forecast is for cooler evenings are regular rains as the days begin to cool with highs only in the 70’s. Counting on that beeing true and that we can mitigate a hot day […]
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