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10/24/2020 – About 3:30 PM, after the ½” rain this morning, sowed in the south half: Cherry Belle Radishes in the north 7 feet of Row 4; Icicle Radishes (2019 seed) in the empty 9′ part of Row 5A between the EJW Cabbage and Detroit Red Beets and; Bok Choi (Top Notch seed from St. […]
Continue Reading9/27/2020 – Mixed 2 gallons of Monterey Spinosad (from the new 1-gallon jug delivered last week) at 2 oz/gallon plus non-ionic surfactant. Sprayed the following. All plants in the garden that again have flea beetles. mustard butternut squash white scalloped squash beets broccoli radish did not spray the peppers or flowers All plants in Mary’s […]
Continue Reading9/23/2020 – Mary picked swiss chard but it all had some dead and live flea beetles. All leaves were speckled with their damage as they were everywhere. Threw it in the compost. Sprayed Bug-No-More on: Chard Cabbages Broccoli new little Tendergreen mustard radishes mustard 9/24/2020 – Cut off all leaves of the chard and saw […]
Continue Reading9/6/2020 – Diseases took some of the Jack-o-Lantern pumpkin plants and left holes in the extra wide row. Loosened the soil in two 5’x3′ plots and pulled the edges in so they are raised about 4″. Planted left over daikon radish seeds 1/2″ deep in three rows about 8″ apart in each plot. 9/9/2020 – […]
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8/25/2020 – The post covers the pre-soaking, pre-sprouting, and sowing. As pre-sprouting took more than a week, the spinach was not sowed in the garden until September 4. The plan and what was done was as follows. At 4:00 PM: Put the seeds cited below into 1/2 pint mason jars and added about 1/2″ water. […]
Continue Reading4/15/2020 – We have a lot of seeds left from last year and an empty row 15 in the North Half just east of the tomatoes. Sowed the north half of that row (about 30 feet) as a double row of Daikons using the HOSS seeder with plate 3 set to 3/4″ deep. This is […]
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2/29/2020, Leap Day – To further prepare for the spring garden today we harvested the: remaining few spinach and lettuce leaves the remaining small broccoli heads the remaining Icicle radish the remaining Daikon Radish and the carrots. The surprise was the carrots. The leaf tops never got more than 6″ tall and were not filled […]
Continue Reading12/9/2019 – After much reading and evaluation, we fed boron and side dressed with Miracle Grow using info assembled here. The solution was: Miracle Grow mixed at the normal rate of 1 tbps per gallon. 20-Mule-Team Borax mixed at the rate of 1 tbsp in the gallon of MG. A gallon was applied slowly from […]
Continue Reading12/3/2019, 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 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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