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Thursday, May 08, 2014
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cntryboy
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East Jordan, MI
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one of the changes we are making this year is instead of amending the entire patch in the spring, we decided to cut the patch up into a grid. Each 30x30 ft plant area was split into 6x6ft squares. The patch is for 4 plants so 60 x 60 ft makes 100 squares. Divide the amendments that are to be added to the patch by 100 and put them down about a month ahead of the growth. Our thought is, that the first part of the year we always have good growth, but we aren't maintaining it. By adding the amendments just ahead of the plant we hope to keep the same nutrients available to the plant through the entire growth stage and the should last longer in the last half of the patch. The first square were the plant is was amended in March. There is a few days of rain predicted, so even though we were going to amend next week, we opted to do it tonight for next 6 ft completely around the plant site. In about 2 weeks we will do the next 6 ft swath, then depending on plant growth how close together we will continue the pattern.
We also planted the tomatoes. A 3.99 Weston, 2.87 Weston, 3.93 Cole, 4.61 Finders, and a 5.33 Martin as well.
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