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Boardtown Organics

  (Starkville, Mississippi)
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Rain, Rain, Go Away!!!!! For a Little While Anyway!!!!

  Well, for the first 17 days of May, it has rained 11 of 'em!!!!  Boy, it sure is wet!!!  The field crops either died or were stunted so I plan to replant as soon as it dries up.  With the weatherman is calling for rain this weekend, who knows when it will dry up!!! 

  The container vegetables are doing pretty good but they didn't like all the rain either!  The tomatoes are inbetween golfball and tennisball size.  All the peppers are blooming and even have small peppers on them.  The lettuces are growing like weeds, the squash and zucchini have small fruits on them, and the eggplants are forming blooms!  I just transplanted four varieties of cucumbers into containers and still have several varieties of peppers to transplant.  If not for the containers, we would still be scratching our heads wondering what to do!!!!  Greg

 

 
 

Bad News!!!!

     Since the temps got down to 17 last night, I was a little worried about the tomato seedlings in the greenhouse.  I have 2 small heaters in there that I knew could handle 25 degrees.  Well, I found out that they COULDN'T handle 17!!!!  All of the tomatoes were dead, about 100 seedlings that were coming up.  The broccoli and cauliflower made it ok, just lost a few of them.  The lettuce made it with no loses.  I just hope the other trays of tomatoes and peppers that have not come up yet, make it ok.  The weather man said it would get down to 17 again tonight.....we'll see.......Greg
 
 

First Seedlings of the Year!!!!!!!

     Well, the first seeds of the year have germinated.....a few Beefsteak tomatoes, broccoli, cauliflower, lettuce mix, and Roma tomatoes.  The weather has been causing a lot of problems so far....very cold temps!  My small heaters can't keep up and the seeds are very slow to germinate.  Tonight's low is going to be 19 and 20 for tomorrow night.

     Today, the greenhouse had to endure 30 to 35 mile an hour gusts and it took a beating but made it through.  I'm glad I used the 1" pvc instead of 3/4! 

     Buy your fresh veggies from farmers that are Certified Naturally Grown!!!!.......Greg

 

 
 

The First Seeds of the Season

     We finally started our first seeds of the year......just over 1000 seeds so far!  Here's a list of the seeds:

   Tomato - Beefsteak, Matt's Wild Cherry, and  Roma

   Peppers - Calif. Wonder, Purple Beauty, Golden Calif. Wonder, Cayenne, and Hungerian Hot Wax

     Broccoli, Cauliflower, and Eggplant       

     We still have a lot of other seeds to start but I will need to mix up some more organic potting mix.  We'll let you know how everything is progressing........Greg              

 
 
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