So I did a Google search for “earth juice free shipping” and one of the links was to americanag.com. I ordered Earth Juice’s Grow, Bloom, MicroBlast and Catalyst formulas to try out. It wasn’t until I just went back to their site to look around again that I noticed they are in Portland and Beaverton (which put them about 45 minutes north of me). I’m so slow sometimes lol.
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For some reason, our recycling hasn’t been picked up for 2 weeks and it ended up being a good thing, I took out all the gallon milk jugs I could get to and washed them and cut their bottoms off. These are going over the tomatoes at night, and I got some stakes cut out of a 1″x2″ board we have and stuck in the ground to hold a tarp up over some of the other plants that need weather protection. I can’t do much about the animals yet, but I need to try to do everything I can to protect my babies from the cold! I need to take a picture of my crazy set up now lol. I ordered lemon cucumber seeds from dirtworks.net – I looked at burpee, territorial seed and lots of organic sources but they all charged crazy shipping. $8 ($3 for seeds and $5 for shipping) for a packet of seeds that costs at most $1 with a stamp and enveolpe to ship? No thanks. dirtworks.net was free shipping. Now I’m looking at Earth Juice fertilizers…lots of research…with as bad as the soil’s nutrients are, I think it’d be a good idea. 
1 beefsteak tomato plant: lopped off so just a little bit is showing above ground with 2 tiny branches. Not sure if it can make it? 2 Roma plants: seems it’s too cold at night yet for them, there’s some leaf damage that appears to be from the cold…it might be something else though. Corn rows & zucchini: indents that might just be from walking, light digging. Carrot rows: big hole dug into one end. I’ll take pictures today after it warms up and I go out to actually fix things up. I read a post on GardenWeb about how some people cover their baby plants til it’s consistently in the upper 30s to 40s…and here I thought they were safe to 32-33. Learn something new every day.
This is why I planted 2-3 times more then we’d need of everything…I went out today and found something had attacked a pepper plant. It was knocked over with some of the grass mulch pushed on top of it (hiding the evidence? what kind of criminal masterminds are these animals?!).
Chris was out watering and found an evil little furred or feathered creature got into one of the squash mounds. I think cat. While I’m tempted to sit outside with Chris’ pellet gun (kidding), I’ll look into more natural and nice methods of repelling the little monsters.
Transplanted roma and beefsteak tomatoes, all the herbs, broccoli, cauliflower, peppers, and onions. Went ahead and transplanted the lettuce. The corn didn’t need as much space as I thought so I put the tomatoes over by it, better soil. Still need to: plant the watermelon and pumpkins, which will be planted outside the garden, in the grassy area past the fence in this picture….there’s no room for it inside the fence, not and have it stay mostly sunny. Also still need to get the cucumbers, and plant them inthe corner by the corn and taters, to grow up the fence. Oh, and when the early girl tomatoes are big enough, transplant them.
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