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Daily activities of the owner of a 20 acre Organic Farm plus
observations, notes, and comments on a wide variety of topics.
| 1 | Built our Roadside Farm Stand frame. Made 3 more wooden holders for moving plants from our greenhouse to our Roadside Stand. |
| 2 | Mowed the paths around the
farm. Made 2 more wooden holders for moving plants. |
| 3 | Put plastic wind shields on
the Farm Stand Frame. Added shelves and signs. Heavy frost - turned out to be the last for the 2004 season. |
| 4 | Bought more wood to add ends to plant carriers. |
| 5 | Opened the Farm Stand for business selling tomatoes, peppers, herbs, and flowers as seedling plants. Made more signs and labels. |
| 6 | Made individual pots of
pepper varieties that were missing from initial setup. Disked and cultivated most fields on the farm. |
| 7 | Built shelves for the Farm Stand front bays. |
| 8 | Made individual pots for all
basil plants that were still in flats. Made 2 more wooden carriers for flower pots. |
| 9 | Closed the basement greenhouse with fluorescent lights. All seedlings now in the outside greenhouse. |
| 10 | Disked the tomato field. Re-planted volunteer ornamental sunflowers in prepared rows. |
| 11 | Roto tilled ornamental sunflower rows, peas, and Grape Field potatoes. |
| 12 | Roto-tilled potatoes at Blueberry Hill. Raked and laid out the Basketball Field for planting birdhouse gourds. |
| 13 | Planted half the Basketball Field for birdhouse gourds. |
| 14 | Finished planting birdhouse
gourds at the Basketball Field. Moved larger tomato plants from 4" pots to 6" pots and raised the prices, too. |
| 15 | Mowed the paths around the
farm. Started setting in posts at the Tomato Field. |
| 16 | |
| 17 | Planted sunflowers for seed head harvest in the Grape Field NW section. |
| 18 | Finished planting sunflowers in Grapes NW. Disked other fields not planted yet. |
| 19 | Planted 1 row of cukes and pickles in the East Meadow - East Central Field. |
| 20 | Finished planting cukes and pickles. Disked the pumpkin field. Cut the Fairway Field for mulch. |
| 21 | Lost power for 24 hrs. |
| 22 | Ran electrical cable and
garden hose so I could use a 12VDC pump powered from the farm tractor to pump out the
basement sump with power off. Raked the mulch cut in the Fairway Field. |
| 23 | Started setting out peppers. |
| 24 | Set out more peppers. |
| 25 | Finished setting out peppers. Took leftover peppers and put in individual pots for sale as plants. |
| 26 | Set about half of the posts in the Tomato Field. |
| 27 | Set the remaining posts in the Tomato Field. |
| 28 | Disked and cultivated. Planted mini-gourds and mini-pumpkins. Planted more ornamental sunflowers. |
| 29 | Ran wires and twine for tomato field. Put mulch on 4 rows. |
| 30 | Set out 3 1/2 rows of tomato plants before it started raining. (0.75") |
| 31 | Set out rows 4 & 5 in the Tomato Field. |
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