Mary’s Large Garden; Progress
2-3-2019 – The garlic and bulb onions are coming up and everything else is getting bigger.
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Journal of events related to the vegetable gardens
Plowed & Disked the Garden
2/1/2019 – Plowed the garden for the first time with the old Ford moldboard plow gotten in the swap for the old augers. Even though the ground had been disked at least 4 times, and sub soiled, there was still heavy sod in places and Fergie could not pull it through those spots at 6″ […]
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Bloody Butcher Dent Corn, 42 g Cherokee White Eagle Dent Corn, 42 g Big Red Ripper (Mandy) Southern Pea (Cowpea), 28 g Jalapeño Hot Pepper, 0.3 g Ancho Poblano Hot Pepper, 0.3 g Beach Sunflower (Cucumber-Leaf) Sunflower, 1 g $16.20 Sub-Total:$4.50 Shipping Method (Shipping to US):-$0.81 Member Number :$19.89 Total:
Continue ReadingWinter Tree & Plant Trimming
1/27/2019 – We cut out dead wood, water sprouts, limbs that were out of balance, and the little junk on the following trees: the new Shumard Oak in the barnyard; the live oak just west of the grain bin; the live oak at the northwest corner of the barn next to the ditch; the pear […]
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Planted Seeds for Starters
1/26/2019 – This was our first time to plant seeds to grow our own seedlings to plant outside after the last frost. We used a Burpees seed starting package of thin plastic trays and the expansion peat pellets plus egg crates with Miracle Grow’s Potting Soil for Starting Seeds.
Continue ReadingSubsoiled the Garden and Old Barn Site
1/21/2019 – Subsoiled (using Ted’s Howes subsoiler) the old barn site and adjacent areas where the red clay from the barn burial was at the surface and grass was not growing well. The subsoiler was going down about 12″ and I went both ways about every 18″. Used a satellite view from Google Earth to […]
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Shumard Oak Tree for the Barn Yard
We bought and planted a 30-gallon Shumard Oak tree in the Barn Yard to someday shade the south-most section where the shop will be…someday. Bought it for $150 from Brian, the owner of Hilltop Tree Farm LLC on Grand Bay-Wilmer Road.
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First Garlic in the Garden
The 0.5 lbs. (five bulbs) of Lorz Italian garlic (an heirloom) arrived from Filaree Garlic Farm and were planted the next day, 1/17/2019, in Mary’s large yard garden. They were planted 6″ apart staggered in the wide row and 2″ deep. The dirt had been tilled at least 6″ deep and about a gallon (i.e. […]
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Mary planted some of the seed bought at St. Elmo Feed and Seed, in her large and small gardens.
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Getting the Garden Ready the First Time
This post will include the days between the first ripping up the hay string and sod through plowing. 1/10/2019 – After months of planning and changes in the plans we finally began work in a small part of Dad’s “Garden”. Before the fence is built, I used the Ford 5600 and Ted’s box blade, with […]
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