News of the Free: January 2020

The survival garden would probably have string beans, lima beans, crowder peas, corn, tomatoes, broccoli, cabbage, peppers, and cucumbers along with fall greens.

In a gallon hand pump sprayer, we mix one cup soy bean oil, one cup of hand dish washing detergent and a gallon of water. Spray that mixture on plants under attack. It will kill insects like Japanese beetles on contact within a minute or less.

Side-dress broccoli and cabbage with aged chicken manure.

We take about 125 [lettuce] seed (1/2 a packet) and mix them thoroughly with a cup of sand. Mix very well. I get on my hands and knees and drop the mixture under a string line on top of a completely pulverized seedbed. Then I tamp the row so that the seed has good soil contact.

We wash [fall greens] in a front-loading clothes washing machine in cold water on delicate cycle

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