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Journal of events related to the vegetable gardens
The fertilizer used in this first spring garden was as follows. Broadcast before anything planted – 15-0-15 with 2% iron by AGRI-AFC LLC on Dawes Rd. Side dressing – 33-0-0 Nitrogen with Sulfur plus Lime Total Nitrogen ………………………………33% 10.50% Ammoniacal Nitrogen 22.50% Urea Nitrogen Sulfur (Combined as S) …………… 12% Derived from Urea, Ammonium Sulfate […]
Continue Reading5/21/2019 – The three rows of Silver King Corn looks pale and in need of nitrogen. Side dressed it with 34-0-0 + a little lime.
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5/20/2019 – We started this morning about 7 AM and worked until 9:30 in the garden and accomplished the following: Enjoyed the first-ever squash and zucchini harvest of 2 large zucchini and four 6″ long yellow squash. In the photo below are three zucchini as I picked one yesterday. Thinned the cantaloupes to two plants […]
Continue Reading5/19/2019 – Thinned again the first 3 rows of Nemagreen lima beans (rows 10, 11 and 12) to 3″-6″ spacing. Many that pulled up had a lot of roots so planted them deep (~3″) in the gaps. Found 8-10 corn stalks about the 7th T-Post from the south fence in Row 2 where the leaves […]
Continue Reading5/17/2019 – General weeding, of course, and sprayed Sevin on the peas & beans as follows: PEPH – New growth shows curling as before Kentucky Wonder Bush – Not much damage so sprayed along the top Texas Creme Peas – Young but there is a lot of leaf curling. More so that the PEPH. Mary […]
Continue Reading5/16/2019 – After weeding the in the corn and peas, the tomatoes had dried from the dew. Sprayed them for the first time with Mancozeb fungicide. Using the Troybilt cultivator for the first time in the garden I tilled along the east weedy edge of the tomatoes in the last row next to the sand […]
Continue Reading5/15/2019 – Cultivated the Garden with Ted’s cultivator with the center blades removed. The oldest corn was too tall and the Kentucky Bush Peas were too wide and tall so did not cultivate them. Also did not cultivate rows 13, 14, and 15 where the new lima beans have not come up. Removed the middle […]
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5/14/22019 – Today, like the last couple of days, began at 7:30 but lasted until 11 AM. I mixed about 4 parts 34-0-0 with one part lime. Scored a shallow V trench with the hoe 6″-8″ from the 2nd and 3rd planting of corn; i.e. all the remaining corn not yet side dressed. Mary dropped […]
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5/13/2019 – Mary and I worked in the garden from 7:30 to 10:00 am and accomplished the following: We thinned the 2nd and 3rd planting of peas. I pulled the corn from the row of peas and transplanted some of it in the second row of corn alongside some I transplanted a few days ago. […]
Continue ReadingHeavy thunderstorms blew in Friday afternoon, Saturday, and Sunday morning from the WSW and blew over many of Mary’s onions, some of the corn and other stuff. Saturday there was 1.38″ of rain and Sunday 0.97″.
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