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Journal of events related to the vegetable gardens
7/8/2022 – Mary planted multiplying onion sets in three of the red plastic grow boxes. We moved them tp be lined up outside along the west wall of the greenhouse. The onion sets from G&D were different looking as they had a large (up to ½-inch diameter) stem that had been cut off 1-2 inches […]
Continue Reading7/2/2022 – Trimmed tomato suckers and end vines and tops of basil plants that have bloomed. The tomatoes are Better Boys and the Basil grew from Prospera® DMR (CG1)Organic (F1) Basil Seed. Trimmed off all lower leaves and planted them in individual pots with Peters Potting Soil mix. Watered them in with rain water and […]
Continue Reading6/8/2022 – A few stink bugs appeared on the tomatoes yesterday and today there were more. Sprayed them with Gordon’s Bug-No-More at 5 oz./gallon. Sprayed 1.5 gallons on the 75 feet of row. 6/9/2022, 7 AM – Picked tomatoes and found no stink bugs.
Continue Reading5/29/2022 – Used Fergie and the cultivator to plow the middles of the peas, beans, cucumbers, and the small squash next to the Ashley cucumbers.
Continue ReadingGiven the 4″+ rain this past week and the corn is tasseling and the squash blooming. I side-dressed them with 13-13-13. The idea of using a balanced fertilizer, rather than just nitrogen, is to replenish the nutrients washed out by the rain while adding nitrogen.
Continue Reading5/26/2022 – Rain for the past 3 days is sure to make the small spots of blight black spots multiply so sprayed the tomatoes with Mancozeb mixed at 1 oz./gallon. Roses also are starting to show some black spots so sprayed them with the same solution. 5/27/2022 – Sprayed Epsom Salts on Tomatoes & Peppers […]
Continue Reading5/25/2022 – Seminole Pumpkin Seed arrived from SESE.
Continue Reading5/25/2022 – Thunderstorms before dawn blew down about a third of the corn.
Continue ReadingSide dressed tomatoes lightly with a mixture of 13-13-13 plus 0-0-60 A new tomato side-dressing mixture devised here is to reduce the N (the vines are growing fast with the 13-13-13 below the hill) while providing a high level of potassium as recommended in the link from TomatoDirt.com below. The tomatoes are healthy and grow […]
Continue Reading5/22/2022 – The Ashley cucumbers came up well and were too thick. To thin them some were transplanted to the adjacent empty space in the same row at 12-inch spacing. The total row length is now about 30 feet. Only about half of the year-old Delta Squash seed came up. Filled in the row with […]
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