Mowed Peas, Corn, & Cucumbers then Disked
7/14&16/2021 – Bushhoged the peas, corn, and cucumbers then two days later disked the litter in. This was the entire south half and the empty rows in the north half.
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Side Dressed Tomatoes, Corn, Scalloped Squash, Cucumbers, & Cantaloupes
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 ReadingSide Dressed Peppers, Cucumbers, & Cantaloupes
5/15/2021 – 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 ReadingTilled between wide rows in the garden
5/14/2021 – Tilled the wide rows between the tomatoes, squash and cukes in the north half of the garden. Also tilled the two empty half rows.
Continue ReadingCultivated the Garden
5/7/2021 – Used the cultivator still set with about a 14″ wide plant space to: breakup the sides of the pea hills and the middles. Backed down the extra-wide middles of the squash and cucumber rows and plowed to knock out the small weeds next to the plants and loosen the rain-packed soil. That left […]
Continue ReadingMajor Garden Sowing & Planting Day
4/26/2021 – Based on the early morning temperature predictions for the next 10 days being in the 60’s and the pepper seedlings in the greenhouse looking really ready, we spent the day in the big garden. The day was great and the late afternoon before the full moon was even better. What was accomplished was: […]
Continue ReadingResowed Freeze-Damaged Seedlings & White Scallop Squash
4/7/2021 – We sowed White Scalloped Squash in the south end of the row east of the tomatoes. About 20′ at about 24 in. apart. We resowed some of the frost damaged areas that do not look like they will make it in the rows as follows. Pascola Zucchini – None made it likely due […]
Continue ReadingThinned Seedlings in the Garden
4/6/2012 – 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 […]
Continue ReadingApril 3, Late Frost!!!
4/3/2021 – Low predicted to be 40° & Dew Point was to be 31°. The low was actually 34° and the ned point was also 34°. Therefore, When we should not have a frost we did—2 weeks after the 90% last frost date. Thankfully, the heater was going in the greenhouse and the low there […]
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Sowed Squash, Cantaloupes, Cucumbers, & Tomatoes After Laying Drip Line
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 […]
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