Daily activities of the owner of a 20 acre Organic Farm plus
observations, notes, and comments on a wide variety of topics.
| 1 | Drilled holes in irrigation pipes for 4 rows in the Tomato Field. Hoed the winter squash. |
| 2 | Prepared for the Farmers Market. Disked the Pumpkin Field and the West Fairway. |
| 3 | Worked a Vendor booth at the St. Joseph, MI Farmers Market. Planted 1 row of ornamental sunflowers in the West Fairway Field. |
| 4 | Added flower containers to our Organic Farm Stand. Started taking tomato plant from the Farm Stand which did not sell and set them in the overflow row in the Grape Field SE. |
| 5 | Cut ornamental sunflower and started sales of them at the Roadside Stand. Roto tilled the Grape fields and set out more left over tomato plants in the overflow row. |
| 6 | Roto tilled sunflowers in Fairway E, W Fields. Also tilled tomatoes, winter squash, and sunflower rows in the East Meadow. |
| 7 | Dusted potatoes. Hoed late cukes and pickles. Worked on Tomato Field irrigation piping. |
| 8 | Finished connecting irrigation pipe on all 14 rows in Tomato Field. Started running tomato wires. |
| 9 | Prepared for the Farmers
Market. Hoed and roto tilled late cukes and pickles and winter squash. |
| 10 | Worked a Vendor booth at the St. Joseph, MI Farmers Market |
| 11 | Hoed winter squash. Moved the rest coleus plants and basil plants from 4" pots to 6" pots and raised the price. |
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| 13 | Tied tomato plants to wires. Put up second level wire on 8 rows. |
| 14 | Hoed and roto tilled the late cukes and pickles. Roto tilled pumpkins. |
| 15 | Welded expansion bars to single row cultivator. Cultivated late pickles, sunflowers, pumpkins and winter squash. |
| 16 | Roto tilled late pickles. Started weeding main pickle and cuke field. |
| 17 | Hoed late pickles and cukes. Cultivated main pickles and cukes. |
| 18 | Cultivated main pickle and cuke field. |
| 19 | Planted 1 row of ornamental sunflowers in the West Fairway Field. |
| 20 | Cultivated pickles and cukes. Put fish emulsion water on pickles, cukes, peppers, and small sunflower plants. |
| 21 | Mowed weeds around the fields. |
| 22 | Put up a second level wire on the tomato overflow row. Tied plants to the second wire. |
| 23 | Prepared for the Farmers Market. |
| 24 | Worked a Vendor booth at the St. Joseph, MI Farmers Market |
| 25 | Cut back some of the basil plants in the Greenhouse which were starting to blossom. |
| 26 | Mowed the weeds over the potato plants which were now dying. |
| 27 | Started bagging (with onion bags) individual sunflower seed heads. Cultivated sunflowers and late pickles. |
| 28 | Roto tilled the winter squash and half the pumpkin field. |
| 29 | Roto tilled the remaining pumpkins. |
| 30 | Prepared for the Farmers Market. |
| 31 | Worked a Vendor booth at the
St. Joseph, MI Farmers Market Roto tilled 4 rows of sunflowers. |
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