Monday, September 27, 2010

A Weekend at the Farm 09/25-26/10



Friday night, Max's football game. Saturday, wedding invitation shopping. Saturday afternoon to the farm. The weather is still a challenge, although mornings are starting to be a bit cooler.
  • Worked in the Vegetable Garden for a long time on Sunday. Prepared several beds with compost and fertilizer. Added lots of citrus peel for nematodes.

  • Planted a flat of Snow Crown cauliflower transplants and a flat of Gypsy broccoli transplants. Broccoli and cauliflower will be long gone when it is time to plant spring peas.

  • Sowed Burpee Bibb Letucce and Burpee spicy Mesclun mix: Red Salad Bowl, Mustard Mizuna, Endive, Radicchio Red Treviso, Arugula Rocket.

  • Planted 2 Early Jersey Wakefield cabbage transplants.

  • Planted 3 Flash collard transplants.

  • Also have beets, spinach, and dill growing - that's my fall garden. I'll probably stop there.

  • Adjusted the sprinklers and reduced the run times for everything.

  • Admired my new landscaping.

  • Pulled up some unruly zinnias.

  • Sprayed herbicide in the driveway, Vegetable Garden, around the new landscaping, and the Rose Garden.

  • Weeded the Long Border.

  • Attached labels to plant stakes.

  • We took care of my husband's son's dogs. They got sprayed by a skunk. I guess we didn't take very good care of them... Bathed them in a washtub - hydrogen peroxide, baking soda and soap. What a mess.

  • Planted some parsley in the Infinity Garden.

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