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12/3/2019, 6 AM – There was a hard frost and the temperature went down to 27 F. There were no damages to anything in either garden. The plants that were not damaged in the big garden were: Florida Broadleaf Mustard – 4-6″ high Ruby Queen Beets – 1-2″ high Swiss Chard – 1″ high Early […]
Continue ReadingFed Miracle Grow to all the onions and the 1″ high lettuce.
Continue Reading11/17/2019 – Side dressed the Pak Choi and onion sets in the fourth row with 34-0-0. For the Pak Choi, dribbled it into a shallow grove drawn with the hoe. Then pulled some dirt over it. Dribbled a little into the onions. 11/19/2019 – Feed the onions sets with fish emulsion.
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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 Reading10/1/2019 – Mary planted one cluster of ___ onions bought at Lowe’s in the onion row; i.e. fourth and last row from the fence.
Continue Reading9/3/2019 – Ordered the following via Amazon. White Lisbon Bunching Onion Seeds – 2 gramsSold by: Hirt’s Gardens $1.79 Italian Red of Florence Bunching Onion Seeds – 1 gram Sold by: Hirt’s Gardens $1.89
Continue ReadingWe pulled all the rest of the Texas 1015Y, Texas Early White, and Red Creole bulb onions as there were none that had not been at least to some extent wind damaged. We have about a dozen Texas Sweet and Texas early that are 2″ or larger and a lot of small ones. The red […]
Continue ReadingAbout 5/9/2019, a severe thunderstorm with southerly gusts over 20 MPH blew over some of the bulb onions. I emailed Dixondale with photos for advice on what to do. Customer Service responded promptly saying that Bruce–The Onionman–looked at my photos and said he: “thinks they will stand back up, it may take a couple of […]
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