Sprayed cabbage, radishes, & mustard for bugs
11/15/2021 – Several cabbage plants and scattered leaves in the mustard and radishes have ragged holes eaten in the leaves. Sprayed them with Spinosad.
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Journal of events related to the vegetable gardens
First Hard Frost, 31.1°
11/14/2021 – Last week we had two days with a light frost but this morning we had a hard frost with the air temperature just below freezing. With the predicted low to be 34°, we knew it would be colder here. We put the frost sheets over the tomatoes and picked all the peppers.
Continue ReadingFirst Frost Fall 2021
11/7/2021 – That morning was the first frost for this fall. Air temp was 35° and the dew point was 34°. The heavy dew only froze on the roof and grass not under the trees. 11/8/2021 – Almost an exact repeat of the morning before although the frost was not as dense. The tomatoes, basil, […]
Continue ReadingPlanted Onion Sets from Hoss
10/30/2021 – Planted the 3 types of onions, Red Creole, Plethora, and Savannah Sweet from Hoss. They arrived just before Thanksgiving and we put them into small pots with dirt around the bundles. Waited to plant with Piper and Olivia but there was not time or the right weather. Planted them in Mary’s Garden.
Continue ReadingSowed Carrots and Spinach
10/29/2021 – A good cold front blew through the day before yesterday dropping 2.41 inches of rain and dropping temperatures by about 10°. Of course, soil temps have also dropped and are now in a good range for carrots and spinach. The hilled rows have had heavy rains and so I used the 4-tined hoe […]
Continue ReadingSoil Temperatures Aug thru Oct 2021
Date Time Big Garden °F Mary’s Garden°F AmbientAir °F Greenhouse Remarks 8/1/21 3 pm 102 98 95 Partly Cloudy 8/5/21 3 pm 96-98 in sun90 in shaded area 98 8393@1:30pm Disked this AM. Partly Cloudy 8/6/21 3:30 pm 82 @squash wet drip88 in the dry 8692@3pm Partly cloudy AM. Cloudy >3PMDay of 1st sowing for […]
Continue ReadingSowed Detroit Dark Red Beets
10/23/2021 – Sowed Detroit Dark Red Beet seed from Hurley F&F in the row 58 ft. from the fence on the west side of the north half. This is the first sowing this year. Hopefully, we will produce our first-ever beets. The pre-planting steps taken below were extracted from several beet planting processes as recorded […]
Continue ReadingSowed Mustard, Onions, & Cabbage
10/20/2021 – Sowed Savanah Mustard, Natsuguru onions, and the few Cheers cabbage seeds remaining in the packet. The mustard was sowed in the gaps where it had not come up in the row near 47′ from the fence. This is the first attempt this year to grow green onions from seed in the big garden. […]
Continue ReadingSowed Mustard, Broccoli, & Bok Choy. Planted Onions
10/7/2021 – The soil has finally gotten dry enough to work and so pulled up rows with the hiller that had been pulled up weeks ago. They had been packed down and weeds were beginning to pop up. Sowed: Savanah Mustard Green Magic Broccoli Bok Choy Planted 1 lb. multiplying onions; i.e. about 15 feet […]
Continue ReadingSowed Garden’s South Half and rows in North With Elbon Rye
10/3/2021 – Sowed Elbon Rye in the south half of the garden as a cover crop as was done last year in the north half. The area is 1/6th acre including the turn rows. So, to sow at 100 lbs/ac. sowed 100/6 = 17 lbs. The process: Used the 6 ft, drag harrow to level […]
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