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Tuesday, October 21, 2008
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Big Kahuna 26
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Ontario, Canada.
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LanTerra Update > After a disappointing weigh off season the work continues for next year. With only the Cornerstone weigh-off left to go in Ontario growers had better get patch prep completed quickly. The snow is flying today and its cold outside.
I'm already completed on three planting sites. Patch 2 at home was completed in August and yesterday I worked on patch 3 with its 2700 sq ft area now ready to go. Gratefull at the help Roy Lee of Cornerstone provided and my golf buddy Ken who worked all day running the equipment.
I rented an excavator and dug in 200 feet of drainage tile graded to runoff the ground water out of the patch. We removed three trees and trucked in 18 yards of sand and fresh compost mixed together. The mix was graded around the patch to form a crown in the middle then we added 30 pounds of 46-0-0, 40 pounds of kelp meal, 75 pounds of humic acid, 50 pounds of calcium magnesium sulfate and 30 pounds of sulphur.
I worked well into the evening as after the grading operation I deep dug the whole patch to 18" with the bucket to relieve compaction caused by the grading. A final tilling is all that remains to be done.
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