Accomplishments
- Donations to The Caring Place This month will include both harvested and donated items. 1185.5 lbs. harvested, for a grand total for the year of 2141 lbs.
- Plantings for this month include green beans, cream peas, sweet potatoes, mulberry trees.
- Sonia continues her Fire Ant Eradication program with the enhanced Neem oil. It seems to be doing well, but with lots of rain it is difficult to really know.
- BT injected in squash plants
- Concentrated kelp -garlic solution and spinosad used for pest control
- Some warm days, rain and sunshine have really made the plants produce well and the abundant harvest shows that.
- Discussing and readying beds for new Trial Program
- Trees composted, mulched and weeded
- 9 inches of rain for the month
- Mulched and composted everything
Problems:
- Rain, glad to have it but lots of it in a short time keeps things from getting done.
- Have had to remove some eggplant due to disease
- Squash Vine Borer
- Tomato worms
- Flea beetles and loopers
- Need to make sure everyone is recording what they plant in their beds.