January 23 Garland sowed peas, lettuce and raddish’s. 26 Sent Mollie a bushel
of potato’s and some carrots 30 Garland...sowed beets, asparagus and apple seed 31
I sowed 3 kinds of tomatoes, set out lettuce
February 3 7 papers of seed sugar corn, white flint corn 8 Sowed carrots,
turnip, beets and peas 13 Sent Mrs. Peery artichokes 14 Gave Molly seed garden 16 Give
Mrs. Ward seed goobers. 28 Planted large onions
March 2 Give Ann Brown seed goobers 5 Bit corn—Frost. 7
Planted gourds, squash, beans, cucumbers, sowed parsnips, lettuce, radish, salsafy, okra 9 Sowed parsley 11 Planted butter beans, sowed cabbage, . . . sweet bassle 15 First pea bloom 16 Stuck peas—planted
more onions 18 Had radish’s. bit corn, frost 21 Replanting corn 23 Tom worked
in the garden pulled up the cabbage stalks 28 Sowed sugar corn
April 6 Had my first peas. . . Mrs. Rogers had tomato plants 7 Ann
had tomato plants 10 Sent Mollie tomato plants—sent Mr. O. Pegues tomato plants 11 Planted butter
beans again 23 I sowed cabbage seed 27 Susan planted cabbage plants—Garland planted tomato plants 29 Had beets 30 Planted scarlet sage seed, orange melon
May 4 Planted watermelons, potatoe slips, white beans, cranberry beans. . had irish potatoes 6 G. planted pease, speckle & crowders—gathered strawberry peas 7 Had
beans 13 Called at Mr. Pegues & got some egg plants 15 Sowed a few english peas 21 I had
cucumbers 24 Sowing stock peas 28 Susan finished working over the garden 29 Had squash—pepper
in bloom 30 Saved cabbage seed 3 pints—had a good season 31 Planted potatoe slips. . . stuck tomatoes
June 4 Had tomatoes 5 Gathered late peas. . . Susan worked my pepper 7 Roasting ears 10 Had Okra 18 Bob planted piemelon 23 Got corn out of
the field
July No Entry
August 4 Scarlet Sage just begin to open 20 Planted cucumbers, squash 23
Plowed the garden—sowed turnips 24 Planted shallots 26 Lucinda cleaned out the walks—sowed
cabbage, lettuce, onions, raddish
September 5 Sowed turnip seed L Nickols give us & radish 9 Sowed turnips 27 Frost bit potato vines
October 14 Aunt Nancy gathered sage 23 Killing frost 24 Garland diging potatoes
November 4 Killed the potato's 5 Diging goobers 6
13 blue buckets of goobers 9 Garland at home covering the potato hill rotting badly 19 I
set out beets, parsnips, raddish & other 28 Planted shallots
December 4 Gathering corn
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