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Friday, April 18, 2008
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Bumkin
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Fairport,NY
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Today was my Planned day to finalize my patch prep in preparation of seedling Planting Day!!! Tilled in a bag of Scotts Grub-ex and tilled under my sparse Cereal Rye Cover Crop. I dug down about 3ft in a 4'x 4' where I will be planting my seedlings in this area I mixed in some organic soil ammendment called "Bumper Crop" and sprinkled each 4 x 4 plating area with 2lbs. of Espoma Bio-starter with Mycor.
I ran my soaker hoses, connected my overhead sprinkling system, laid down walking boards to help eliminate compaction, ran electricity to the patch for some heat lamps if need be in May and surrounded one of my hoophouse with a "wind barrier" constructed with Shrink wrap. If this wind break doesn't hold up I will resort back to the black silt screen material I used last year.
Rain is in the forcast for Sunday which will help set the Grub-ex and hopefully start the Mycorhizzial fungi spores to grow? the temps today and the last couple have been in the upper 70's. long term forecast looks promising.
Sunday April 20th is Seed Soaking Day!!! I can hardly wait.
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