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Journal of events related to the vegetable gardens
11/16/2019 – Bought a six-pack of Bonnie’s Green Magic Hybrid Broccoli at Hurley Farm & Feed. Planted them in the north end of Mary’s Garden where the basil had been. Per the tag: full Sun 6+ hours morning sun at planting hits them at ______ afternoon sun is gone by 3 PM. maturity 57 days […]
Continue Reading11/15/2019 – The first mustard planted on 10/10/19 (Florida Broadleaf) in rows 3 & 4 is 4-6″ tall. Although it was planted in a double row the rain spread the seed around and the top of the wide row has a good distribution of young plants. Threw 34-0-0 along the row and watered it in. […]
Continue Reading11/14/2019 – Sowed Space Spinach in the north half of Row 13 in the north half of the garden. Dropped the seeds with the PVC pipe/funnel and raked soil over them. Lightly tamped with the back of the rack times. [It did not come up.] Re-sowed most of the Emperor Spinach in row 11 planted […]
Continue Reading11/13/2019 – Disked and spread Elbon Rye in the three rows on the east and west side of the north half of the garden as the hard freeze last night killed the squash and tomatoes. Lightly disked the seed in as done in the south half. In the south half, the rye planted on the […]
Continue Reading11/13/2019 – The weather this fall has been great but winter is here now. The wind blew 15-25 MPH yesterday as a cold front blew through and an arctic blast followed the wind. At 6 AM the weather station shows the temp to be 25.5 degrees, an 8 MPH wind, and 70% humidity. The afternoon […]
Continue Reading11/7/2019 – On 10/24/2019 I began spraying the winter squash for fungus that was damaging leaves. I should have sprayed the initial small areas 3-4 days earlier before it spread. It spread very quickly. I should have begun spraying Mancozeb much sooner as a preventative.
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11/6/2019 – Sowed Elbon Rye in the south half of the garden as a cover crop. The roots are supposed to trap root-knot nematodes and break up the subgrade fairly deep. The grass will improve the organics in the soil. The area is 1/6th acre including the turn rows. So, to sow at 100 lbs/ac. […]
Continue Reading11/5/2019 – The past sprayings of Mancozeb stopped the spread of the fungus and the new leaves are clean. But, we just had a couple of rainy days and to prevent it coming back I sprayed all the green leaves (not the dead ones that were sprayed before). Picked 6 small acorn squash a few […]
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11/3/2019 – Mary planted Arctic King Lettuce seeds and bulb white onions in her garden. The lettuce is in the second row from the fence and the onions are in the row nearest the fence.
Continue Reading11/02/2019 – Planted in the north half: April Cross Radish – Row 11, north 10 ft. of the south half Emperor Spinach – Row 11, north end of the north half Buttercrunch Lettuce – Row 12, north end of the south half Rainbow Carrots – Row 12, south end of the south half King Richard […]
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