Pilgrim-Farm: Watch it Grow

When you have a garden some weeks are busier than others. This was one of those weeks. We fertilized, planted, plowed and thinned. This week the temperature got up into the 90's drying out the ground and making it perfect for plowing. The garden needs moisture and fertilizer. Tony bought 200 lbs of
gu-annar. Many old timers call vegetable fertilizer "gu-annar". It was a fertilizer harvested long ago and I am not sure if they even make the pure stuff anymore. But, today, gu-annar is a broad term for any plant fertilizer. There is a true science behind soil management and the chemicals you add to grow a green healthy plant. It takes nitrogen, phosphate and potash. We use 5-10-15. But, Granny just calls it all gu-annar. It's funny how you hear older people say things and use words younger people have never heard. I wish I had written a book of these phrases. "This younger generation" could learn alot by talking to old people.

Jerry fertlized the garden before Tony got home from work. He poured the fertilizer in a small cloth bag so it would be easier to carry. And "threw" it out right next to the plant. Careful not to hit the plant because the nitrogen will burn it. It is important to fertilize first so that when Tony plows it, the broken ground will let the fertilizer mix with the moisture and will get down to the roots. This is where the 1956 Farm-All is so vital. If we did not have that tractor, we would have to hoe the whole garden to get the fertilizer into the soil. When Tony plowed it there was still moisture right below the surface even though it had been over a week since it rained and the tempurature was up.