Thursday, March 14
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Notes for 2024 Gardening Season.
This is an ongoing experiment. Home made fertilizer. The minerals below are calculated on a 100g sample.
Calcium 3.2 g - Copper 3.69 mg - Iron 23.67 mg - Magnesium 855 mg - Manganese 25.65 mg - Phosphorus 819 mg - Potassium 15.377 g - Selenium 81 mcg - Sodium 81 mg - Zinc 6.03 mg
Will test different mixes. Will see what works best.
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Thursday, March 14
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Setting up cattle panels for the upcoming season. May need a few more
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Friday, March 15
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Garlics are about 4 inch tall. Weather has been very warm for this time of the year but we are not out of the woods yet. Heavy frost forecasted for tonight. Need to cover those babies.
Welcome to Wisconsin
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Saturday, March 16
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Space is limited so we need to grow things vertically. Preparing two beds for climbing beans and lettuce. The idea is to create a small tunnel covered with sun shade tarp
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Saturday, March 16
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In progress. T-poles are in - Cattle panels are up. Need a few truck loads of wood chips.
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Monday, March 18
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Making a list of tomato to plant in 2024.
1) Big Wixon - 2) Big Zac - 3) Brutus - 4) BruZac - 5) Catapano - 6) Church - 7) Delicious - 8) DelMar - 9) Domingo - 10) Domingo x Lebanese
11) Gigante Farina - 12) Hoy - 13) MegaDom - 14) MegaMarv - 15) MegaZac - 16) Portuguese Giant - 17) Slammer - 18) Slankard - 19) Tumatica Giganta - 20) ZacZilla
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Thursday, March 28
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This is the updated and completed list of the varieties I planted. Some are new for me and may have huge potentials.
Andrea's Giant - Big Malaka - Big Wixon - BigZac - Brutus - Bruzac - Catapano - Church - Delicious - DelMar - Domingo - Domingo x Lebanese - Gigante Farina -
Hoy - MegaDom - Megamarv - MegaMutt D - MegaMutt Z - MegaZac - Uncrackable Cherry - Piennolo del Vesuvio - Portuguese Giant - Rudy - Slammer - Slankard -
Tumatica Gigante - Vincent Sicilian Monster - Zaczilla
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Saturday, April 13
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Tomatoes about 3 weeks old
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Thursday, April 25
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About 30 giant varieties getting outside to harden off.
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Saturday, April 27
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Home Made Fertilizer New Formula. Applied to Eggplants and Peppers.
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Saturday, April 27
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Peppers grown with home made fertilizer
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Saturday, April 27
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Eggplants grown with home made fertilizer
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Tuesday, May 7
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On May 6th the first batch of tomato was finally planted in the garden. Zaczilla and Big Malaka looking the happiest.
Zaczilla - 3.84
Vincent Sicilian Monster - ??
Big Malaka - ??
Brutus - 5.39
Delicious - 4.72
Slankard - 3.0
Catapano - 3.86
Tumatica Gigante - 1.54
Megamarv - 4.52
Domingo - 6.23
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