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GAMCOD notes Thomas Michael

 
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Need to post this before I lose it on a broken phone.

The spot i picked for gamcod, many rocks.  Top of the garden along the fence.  The never used horseshoe pits.


New bed (3 worms per shovel) vs 3 year old bed (11 worms per shovel)  

I planted many packets of 4/$1 seeds in a 72 flat on 1st may.

I know i'm a little late planting: (the soil has just reached 60f)

https://www.greencastonline.com/tools/soil-temperature
Sun May 26
Current Soil Temperature : 64°
24-Hour Average : 60.2°
5 Day Average : 57°


1 May plant seeds 72 flat    10min
24 May stake and mow         20min
25 May check temp 63f         2min  pix
26 May scalp mow               20min video
28 May remove rocks.         10min video
28 May till and buildup.       45min video oops
31 May plant seeds            10min video / pix
1  June water with hose.     15min
1  June add drip irrigation   20min. Need to find dollars
1  June plant starts.             30min
1  June top with grass.        30min
2 June  transplant sunflower. 10min
2 June daffodils.                  10min
3 June water with hose.      15min
18 June water with hose.     15min
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never used horseshoe pits
never used horseshoe pits
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Rocks
Rocks
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Unused horseshoe pits
Unused horseshoe pits
 
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Planted in new gamcod bed:
Tomato

Seeds. 4/$1. First batch planted in a 72 seed flat 1may

Second batch seeded into the bed directly.

Costs
Dollar tree seed packets 25cents. Mi gardner are $2,

Corn, bean, pink tomato, white patty pan all seeds saved last year.  

Yellow daffodils and sunflower are my own transplants
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1may seeds
1may seeds
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Flat 1june
Flat 1june
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Direct seeded
Direct seeded
 
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Yay! for seeds and plants in the ground! How is it looking now?
 
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Drip cost
Male end. $1.15
Female end $1.75
T filter.     $7.75
Preasure regulator. $5.99
100 ft drip tape.   $13.52
Vacume break.  $6.28

$36.48 +$11.93 shipping. $48.41

5/8" Drip Tape - Wall Thickness : 15 mil - Emitter Spacing : 6" - Emitter Flow : 0.53 GPH - Roll Length : 100'
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Timer with vacuum breack
Timer with vacuum breack
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Filter and start of drip tape
Filter and start of drip tape
 
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1st month.  Growing very slow. Ground temp only 64F.

Corn germination about 4/5 has some holes.  

Time update

22 June weeding 60min
27 June weeding 30min

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Temperature
Temperature
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Growing
Growing
 
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Missed the update for aug
Time update

10 July weeding 30min
8 Aug weeding 30min
17 Sept weeding 30min

Finally have a tomato on the vine.  There are some carrots and 1 small head of cabbage and 1 pumpkin.  The flowers have looked good for the last month.  Running out of summer.  The only harvest has been flowers.
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Its all a process.  At least you got some lovely flowers to enjoy and "feed the bees".  How's the pumpkin doing?
 
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Harvest.
Very little grew in the gamcod bed.  I just harvested the 1st 2 tomato's 45g for both.  Since it looks to freeze Sunday night (in 3 days) I also harvested the 1 cabbage but it is all bug food.  The pumpkin weighs 1288g and the remainder of the cabbage was 73g.  Corn, squash and carrots tomorrow.  There are some green tomatoes left but I expect them to freeze before they turn red.  
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Don’t give up on those green tomatoes, plenty of good eating to be made from them!

What Can I make from green tomatoes?
 
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Thomas, do you have any more updates?

Is your season still going?

Any chance of a grand total of harvest, time and money spent for the year?
 
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I see I missed posting the final harvest pix or numbers.
GAMCOD last harvest:
Sweet corn on the cob: 714g
Dry on the cob corn: 142g
Tomato: 8g
Lemon cucumber: 212g
Carrots: 54g

The garden in general did poorly this year.  GAMCOD on dirt without my normal barn bedding fertilizer very poorly.  But I did get another year for my sweet corn grex. This corn is all going to be seed for next year.  I did separate it into early and late batches.
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16 seed packets .25¢ = $4
3 MI Gardner $2 = $6
Rototiller gas = $1
Drip tape = $48.41

Time: about 4 hrs to set it up and an hour a month.  My notes say 8 hrs Total.  Probably closer to 10hrs when I add Oct and harvest.
 
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