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5/6/2025 – Sowed: Squash, Cukes, & Corn in the South Half Seed bed preparation was: About 4 PM, even though we were very tired, used the HOSS push plow with the stirrup weeder to weed and fluff up swaths in the wide Sunflower row in the south half, western most row. Sprinkled in saved sunflower […]
Continue Reading5/16/2024 – As we had a 7″ rain day a few days ago and surely a lot of the fertilizer washed away, I side-dressed everything with 33-0-0 other than tomatoes, peas, and beans. The tomatoes are growing great so the plan is to side dress again when the first ones are ripe. Then plowed all […]
Continue Reading4/18/2024 – Sowed G-90 and Temptress Corn in the south half, east side. The single row of Temptress is the eastmost row and nine rows of G90 are immediately west and over to the cucumbers. The process used this time was modified from past years and was as follows. The HOSS Seeder did not work […]
Continue Reading7/31/2023 Product Total Temptress Sweet Corn – 150 seeds × 2Seed Quantity:150 seeds $9.98 Hoss Green Blaze Bush Bean (PV857) – 100 seeds × 2Seed Quantity:100 seeds $11.98 Pascola Zucchini × 1 $4.99 Subtotal: $26.95 Shipping: $4.99 via Orders below $49 Tax: $0.00 Payment method: Credit/Debit Card Total: $31.94
Continue Reading6/6/2023 – The tallest corn has begun to tassel so side dressed it with 33-0-0. Drew a slot with the corner of the hoe beside each row on the east side (opposite the knee-high side dressing). Threw in about 40 lbs. of the granules. Used the hoe to pull the loose soil over the granules […]
Continue Reading5/22/2023 – The corn that blew over last week is standing up and the shorter stalks are knee high. Sidedressed with 33-0-0 in a slot made by the hoe. Then pulled the soil back over the slot. On the 10 rows (600 ft) spread about 5 gallons of nitrogen. All in less than an hour.
Continue Reading5/4/2023 – The 6-8 inch high corn looks pale as the 3-inch the 1-inch rains surely washed out a lot of the N and K. Sidedress and topdressed it with 15-0-15 with iron. Immediately ran the impulse sprinkler for 45 minutes.
Continue Reading5/2/2023 – The heavy rains since the corn was sowed and came up had the rows packed hard. There were small 2-4 leaf weeds popping up so the plowing took care of both. The corn is about 6-8 inches tall and thin. 5/3/2023 – As the cultivator did not run centered on the row, I […]
Continue Reading4/21/2023 – Planted the peppers Mary raised from seed in the greenhouse immediately south of the pepper and tomato plants bought at G&D; i.e. the row east of the first tomato row next to the sunflowers. Had __ seedlings survived when her original sowing was: Rain predicted for today did not occur and the newly […]
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