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Journal of events related to the vegetable gardens
4/21/2019, as sundown approached on Easter Sunday – Added another hose to the ones already connected at the east end of the house and Mary watered the new seed locations. That also loosen the soil over the seeds–packed by the hard rain Thursday–and I “harvested” old hay from around the bale in the pond field […]
Continue Reading4/16/2019 – I disked again the area in the center of the garden where nothing was planted as the weeds were getting started. Leveled it nicely with the “gate drag” pulled separately from the disk and it worked a lot better. Then, went over the original hills that had not been planted with the hiller […]
Continue ReadingFirst Early AM work in the Large Garden Mary & I worked in the large veggie garden while the sun was coming up behind the trees in the neighbor’s yard. We fertilized the tomatoes and bell pepper seedlings with fish emulsion, planted cucumber; watered pepper seeds and tomatoes. I used the 4-tine hoe to break […]
Continue Reading4/12/2019 – Mary & I worked in the large veggie garden where we: fertilized the bell pepper seedlings with fish emulsion, planted cucumber; watered pepper seeds and tomatoes
Continue ReadingUsed Frank’s hiller to pull up three more rows on the north end, west side next to the tomato sets. See notes below about the issues with the planter and the small quantities of seeds appearing to not dispense well.
Continue Reading4/7/2019 – Planted a Brown Select Satsuma about 35 feet south of the Sand Pear in the large garden. We bought it at Sessions Farm Market. It was grown by Star Nursery, Belle Chase, LA. 4/14/2019, 2:30 AM – A line of thunderstorms blew through very early Sunday morning and a few limbs were blown […]
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4/7/2019 – Corn, pea seeds, and sweet pepper seeds were planted in the very dry beds on 3/28/2019. On 4/4 and 4/5 the dry spell was broken by a long slow 2.6″ of rain. Today, 3 days later, a few corn and pea seeds have sprouted. We used Frank’s hiller to make a bed on […]
Continue Reading4/4/2019 – Exactly one month ago, 3/4/2019, it rained and has been very dry since then. The large veggie garden was planted a week and half ago and the seeds have been resting in the dry dust. We have watered the beds, new plants, and new trees daily and they have done ok. The grass […]
Continue Reading3/29/2019 – Applied 2 cups of 34-0-0 in our double 22 ft row based on table below extracted from here. Stage Number of Leaves Amount to Apply per Acre Total Applied for Season* Pre Plant 4 20 units 40 Roots Established (2 weeks after planting) 5 20 units 60 Slow Growth (every 2 weeks) 6-8 […]
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Borrowed Frank’s hiller and hilled 8 rows. Planted G90 corn in the south 50 ft of the east 4. Okra in 50 ft of the 5th and a little bell pepper in the 6th. The bell pepper seed did not feed well though the seeder-perhaps because there was very little seed. After lunch, planted the […]
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