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Journal of events related to the vegetable gardens
7/8/2020 – Sprayed Epsom Salts on: Tomatoes where the indeterminates are bearing and have a lot of Late Blight issues and the determinates that also have late blight issues and likely near the end of their production. Roses
Continue Reading7/4/2020 – Did the “weekly” spraying of the tomatoes with bifenthrin because of stink bugs. Since beginning the regular spraying there have been very few. It also had to help to remove the spent squash plants. Note this is the second part of the weekly spraying routine as the first part is with a fungicide […]
Continue Reading7/3/2020 – The late blight continues to kill leaves/stems that we have removed as they appear. The tomatoes seem to be doing better without the energy spent trying to deal with the diseased parts. Still having a few tomatoes with the rotten spots but not as many as before we began spraying. Sprayed them almost […]
Continue Reading7/2/2020 – Several days ago We bought at Lowe’s two Bonnies’ Super Sweet 100 Hybrid Cherry Tomato plants and one Husky Cherry Red Hybrid Cherry Tomato plant in 3″ pots. Mary planted them in her garden next to the fence and the extra field fence wire added for the Asian cucumbers and sugar peas. 7/7/2020 […]
Continue Reading7/1/2020 – Bought 1/2 oz. White Scallop Squash & 1 oz. of Jack O’ Lantern Pumpkin Seeds at G&D Feed Store. They came in a clear ziplock bag with hand labeling. The seed supplier is not known.
Continue Reading6/30/2.2. – Mowed 3rd corn and disked all corn rows, the cucumber row and the squash row.
Continue Reading6/29/2020 – Over the past week, we removed the Zucchini, squash, and cucumber vines as the production is almost nil and we have a lot preserved. This was done to reduce the bug and disease hosts next to the tomatoes and peas. Hauled them to the burn pile as do not want the bugs in […]
Continue Reading6/27/2020 – Mary sowed two onion seeds and one leek seed in each cell in one of the ten 72-cell seed trays we bought. There are 24 cells with onions and 12 cells with leeks sowed in Miracle Grow potting soil. The tray was put on a short table in the south window of the […]
Continue Reading6/27/2020 – The acidic pH in her garden has plagued us all spring. The lime added has paid off and the pH in the high 4s to mid-5s is up to 6.2 to 6.8. The two lettuce varieties, Tahama and Salad Bowl Lettuce, has grown ok in the heat but is tough and not flavorful. […]
Continue Reading6/17/2020 – Late afternoon, sprayed tomatoes with Spinosad. Only saw one stink bug. The green tomatoes do not have the many stink bug punctures like last year…so far. The next morning, before leaving for Houston, sprayed them with Dakonil fungicide for the continuing Late Blight. The Roma’s and Beef Stakes have it worse than any […]
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