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Journal of events related to the vegetable gardens
1/22/2020 – Fed liquid fertilizer on: Both onion rows in the yard garden were fed Super Bloom for its high phosphorus per Dixondale. In the Big Garden fed Miracle Grow to: the Bloomsdale Long Standing spinach that is only 4″ tall Buttercrunch Lettuce last planting that is only 4″-6″ tall Swiss Chard that is 4″-6″ […]
Continue ReadingSmall holes up to 1/2″ diameter are appearing in the Florida Broadleaf Mustard and in the Chinese Cabbage in the yard garden. Sprayed the tops almost to drop and some under the canopy with Spinosad. Did not see much damage to the still-small beets but sprayed to anyway as they are next to the mustard.
Continue Reading1/15/2020 – The Bok Choy was at its end so we cut the last and pulled the stumps. Tilled the row with the spade and Mary planted Burpee’s Baby Choi Cabbage. This was in the center row. Bought the seed packet at Home Depot as the picture looks like Baby Bok Choy. The eastmost row […]
Continue Reading1/14/2020 – Planted 10 feet of a wide row of each of the following in 2019’s row 10. Lettuce seeds germinated quickly and well after about 17 hours of soaking inside at 71 F. The soil was moist from a light rain and that also had to help the germination.
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 Reading12/11/2019 – Sowed BLS mustard in row 10 where the few DeCicco broccoli seedlings had been moved to row 9. We had 0.41″ slow rain before daylight and the soil was damp and loose. Used the shuffle hoe to freshen the top 1″ and damage the scattered weeds. Used the funnel-on-PVC pipe to place to […]
Continue Reading12/10/2019 – Moved the few DeCicco broccoli that came up in the south end of the north half of row 10 into row 9 where some Decicco had come up.
Continue Reading12/9/2019 – After much reading and evaluation, we fed boron and side dressed with Miracle Grow using info assembled here. The solution was: Miracle Grow mixed at the normal rate of 1 tbps per gallon. 20-Mule-Team Borax mixed at the rate of 1 tbsp in the gallon of MG. A gallon was applied slowly from […]
Continue Reading12/6/2019 – Mary fed the bok choy and cabbage in her garden Miracle Grow.
Continue Reading12/3/2019 – The Early Jersey Wakefield Cabbage (the first planting, in rows 7 & 8) has done well and is 4″-6″ high and needed to be thinned again. The Early Flat Dutch Cabbage has done very poorly and only 10-20 of the two half rows in row 7 & 8 have come up. Moved 31 […]
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