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Monday, January 20, 2014
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Pumpkin Farm
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Going Green
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On Jan 2oth I planted two more Giant Tomato seeds. These are the 5.11 Daho 2013. I will be doing additional seeds each week in an attempt to grow the largest tomato I can. Tomorrow I am building two greenhouses which are 7 foot wide and 8 foot long. As soon as possible I am trying to build a new hoop house 30 feet by 65 feet. In the meanwhile I am growing the tomato's under grow lights in my bedroom. The first two were the 5.8 Osmala, planted Dec 13th and the next two 5.11 Daho were Jan 20th. Even with greenhouses it will be a long winter until I can plant the tomato's in the ground. My wife has over 50 plants growing in the laundry room, none of them Giants. I have purchased all my amendments for the spring and will apply them in March. It is my goal to have 5 pumpkin, 3 squash, 15 cantaloupe, two terrace of long gourds, 3 bushel gourd plants and 25 Giant Tomato plants. My wife will be growing 1/4 as many Giants but she will be growing all of the ordinary vegetables as well. Gee it is great to be retired! I have ordered the materials to make 12 more raised beds which will not be used as raised beds this year but Giant Tomato spots instead. I already have 15 raised beds and my wife has ten raised beds. I am using rye as a cover crop for the raised beds and gardens at this time. Today I went out to the gardens edge and stuck my hand as deep as possible in the soil. At 4' there was a shallo9w frost but I was able to break through and go about 8-9" deep. It was cold but rich and crumbly. Is crumbly a word? No clumps and full of decaying organic matter!
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