May 6 - 12. 2012

Temperature Range:

• lows: 50 - 64 ° F
• highs: 70 - 86 ° F

Rainfall: 0.5"

Planted:

• 16 sweet potato slips (Vardaman, home grown)
• field corn (Trucker's Favorite, saved seed)

Harvested:

• broccoli
• lettuce
• parsnips

Egg Counts:

• Sun. 4
• Mon. 7
• Tues. 11 (1 from everybody)
• Wed. 7
• Thurs 8
• Fri. 5
• Sat. 9
• Week's Total: 51

Observed & Accomplished

Sunday

• day of rest
• noted pea pods; lots, just need to fill out

Monday

• identified fire blight on one pear tree.  treated as per Gardeners Organic Handbook of Natural Insect & Disease Control
• id'd some sort of small (Flea?) beetle on turnips. Sprayed with pyola
• sprayed aphids on broccoli & cabbage collards with pyola

Tuesday

• rain
• buckwheat sprouting
• beans up
• wheat turning brown, need to keep an eye on when to harvest it

Wednesday

• tomatoes up
• volunteer dill coming up in the peas

Saturday

• raked hay until it started to drizzle
• planted sweet potato slips
• started planting field corn