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Journal of events related to the vegetable gardens
5/14/2021 Autumn Beauty Sunflower Mix × 1 100 seeds per packet $3.99 Autumn Beauty Sunflower Mix × 1 100 seeds per packet $0.00 Green Crop Bush Bean – 150 seeds $3.99 Green Crop Bush Bean – 150 seeds $0.00 Marigold Sparky Mix – 250 seeds $3.99 Jambalaya Okra – 50 seeds $4.99 Red Burgundy Okra – 50 […]
Continue Reading5/14/2021 – Tilled the wide rows between the tomatoes, squash and cukes in the north half of the garden. Also tilled the two empty half rows.
Continue Reading5/12/2021 – The peppers listed below still have yellowish areas between the darker green veins in the leaves. Looks like all the photos of the sign of Magnesium uptake deficiency. Sprayed them the second time this year with Epsom Salts mixed at 1 tbsp per gallon. The plants are still small and a few are […]
Continue Reading5/10/2021 – We could get more rain tonight and tomorrow but I doubt it will be much. Sprayed Mancozeb on the tomatoes in both gardens. There were only a few lower leaves that were yellow with black spots. Removed them while spraying. We have had a lot of blooms but only a few tomatoes. The […]
Continue Reading5/8/2021 – Side dress the 9 rows of G-90 Corn and the squash in the 2nd and 3rd row of the north half. The 33-0-0 was spread along both sides of the cornrows at the rate of about a handful per 5-6 feet. Then plowed in most of the white granules with Fergie and the […]
Continue Reading5/7/2021 – Used the cultivator still set with about a 14″ wide plant space to: breakup the sides of the pea hills and the middles. Backed down the extra-wide middles of the squash and cucumber rows and plowed to knock out the small weeds next to the plants and loosen the rain-packed soil. That left […]
Continue Reading5/1/2021 – As there is an empty section—about 30 feet— of the row between the tomatoes/peppers and the white scalloped squash, sowed six Betternut 401 F1 winter squash seeds as we really like butternut squash. The seeds were sowed ½ inch deep and 4 ft. apart.
Continue Reading5/1/2021 – Some of the pepper’s leaves in the big garden and basil’s leaves in the little garden are yellow between the veins. Based on various pieces of advice collected on this page, we sprayed them with Epsom Salts mixed one tablespoon of Epsom Salts in one gallon of water. Sprayed the top and bottom […]
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4/30/2021 – The north end of the wide sunflower row was waiting for something. This morning we bought sunflower seeds at G&D when we bought Mary’s deck rocker and 2 gallons of GrazonNext HL for the pastures. She sowed them 6″ apart in rows that were 12″ apart.
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4/28/2021 – We pulled the last of the carrots and tilled that space and the spaces that had spinach and onions. The basil she grew from seed in the new greenhouse and up-potted to 6″ pots waiting on the weather to warm up, are great plants. The had enough roots to hold the soil together […]
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