Sunday, October 4, 2009
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Porter tomato
Chicken update
Had first chick casualty today, so the count is down to 29. Don't know what happened. I checked on them this morning, turned off lights so they wouldn't get too warm. Probably starting to get overcrowded, so I've moved them into outdoor pen. They need good air circulation. All look healthy, but the breed is strange in that they spend a lot of time sitting and not scratching....think it maybe due to their rapid weight gain.
Tomato report
Yellow Pear is huge with lots of green tomatoes, Rolf Red Heart is a wimpy plant with only 1 tomato....but did have setback with hornworm. Green Zebra is large but zippo blooms and fruit, Golden Jubilee is less than 4 foot with no fruit, Eva Purple Ball has no blooms or fruit, Juliet is over 8 foot tall and very vigorous but NO tomatoes, La Roma has no fruit and Viva Italia has 2. Supersweet 100 has fruit, red grape and red currant tomatoes have healthy big plants, no fruit, but all 3 were hit by hornworm. Cherokee Purple and Brandywine went in later and have the longest number of days to maturity, but no blooms yet.
The temperatures have been unseasonably cool with highs only reaching the 80s today, whereas the previous two weeks have been rainy with temps in the 70s and lows in the lower 60s and high 50s.....so NO excuses for dropped blooms!
Tree sale at Home Depot
A beautiful 40 gallon Red Oak for $150, and a 20 gallon Sweet Gum and Burr Oak for only $20 each.
Friday, September 25, 2009
Weeding peas
This morning I worked on the 30ft row of Sugar Snap peas, pulling back all the bindweed and seperating it from the individual pea plants. A lot of trouble, and I won't be able to keep up with it forever, but if I can give the peas a good start they will outrun the bindweed. My allergies are horrific today and that is all I plan on doing outside. We got warm, sunny weather again and the pollens or molds or something must be high because I am sneezing my head off.
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