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Monday, November 03, 2014
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Iowegian
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Anamosa, IA [email protected]
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Fall patch prep has started. The empty plots have a spotty cover crop of ground hog radish. I had to keep it mowed down for weed control which hurt the radishes some. Everything got a light rye seeding and covered with chopped leaves and grass clippings. Then I applied 7400# of compost. I hope to get one or two pickup loads of old cow manure to add this fall. In the spring I will add 50# of kelp meal with some Epsom salt and just a little bit of borax. Then 50# of 0-0-50, and 500# of chicken manure crumbles. After that just micorrhizae and some beneficial bacteria products and see what happens. Maybe some more fish heads for the gourds. The long gourd trellis will be re-designed to give them more height and growth area. My extra ditching and soil build up will have to wait for a year. Hopefully we won't get flooded 2 years in a row. Big floods like this year only happened 4 times in the past 28 years so I hope we will be safe.
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