A farmer works in acres not hours.
Journal of events related to the vegetable gardens
8/9/2019 – The soil report dated 7/26/2019 here recommends 1 ton/acre of lime and 120 lbs-0-60 lbs per acre of fertilizer. As the garden is about 1/3 acre it needs 40#-0-20#. The plan is to apply half the nitrogen as side dressing. So, a 15-0-15 fertilizer means: 15% of 50 lbs is 7.5# per bag. […]
Continue ReadingThe soil temperature 4″ down was 88-89 degrees.
Continue Reading7/25/2019, about 2 pm – Using the Magic Chef Instant Meat thermometer I measured the soil temp in the recently disked big garden. This afternoon the ambient temp was 91 but the morning started out really nice at 70 degrees. The sky was partly cloudy with more sun than shade from the clouds. The light […]
Continue Reading7/23/2019 – Prepared and mailed in three soil samples to the Soil Lab at Auburn University. “Big Garden, north end” – Collected about 6 samples with a hand trowel in the dirt that had been bush hogged then disked several times to begin incorporating the pea vines and bean bushes. Blended the bucket of dirt […]
Continue Reading7/23/2019 – For the fall garden, we started eight 2-inch pots with all but three of the 20 tiny tomato seeds bought at St. Elmo Feed and Seed. We started six 2-inch pots of Burpee’s Common Cilantro. The soil was about a 50:50 mixture of Miracle Grow’s Seed Starting blend and their potting soil.
Continue Reading7/22/2019 – As part of getting ready for a fall garden we will start monitoring soil temperatures. Newly collect info about the necessary temperatures for various vegetable’s germination can be viewed here. Yesterday we had over an inch of rain so the soil is very damp but not soggy. At 8 am the soil temp […]
Continue Reading7/20/2019 – The okra has produced well up to this week and it seems to have slowed down. That made me wish I had side dressed it last weekend when I should have. There was some 34-0-0 with lime left in a bucket in the grain bin and so I added a little fresh 34-0-0, […]
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7/20/2019 – Mary has been gathering flowers from the big garden for a month or so but a post is just now being made. The Beach Sunflower (Cucumber-Leaf) and Zinnias, State Fair Mixed Colors have produced many flowers. She also collected today about a 1/2-gallon of drying buds of the spent sunflowers for seeds. That […]
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7/17/2019 – The peas, G-90 corn, Silver King Corn, squash, and cucumbers were done and the freezer is full. Within 3 weeks we need to plant the first of the fall garden and have to get the east side ready. So, mowed them down and will disk those areas tomorrow. We have also decided to […]
Continue Reading7/16/2019 – We dug up all the clumps of multiplying onions in the south end of her yard garden. Laid them out to dry on the picnic table. Collected almost a big wheelbarrow full of older horse manure from the old garden field and spread it on the north half of the garden other than […]
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