January
No Entry
February
16 Hauled manure
25 Planted potatoes
27 Planted first corn—piece on creek. Planted pumpkins & watermelons
March
1 Planted beets
2 Planted peas & radishes
8 Planted bush beans & eschalottes
13 Planted pie mel. yesterday. Planted okra
14 Planted eschalottes, sugar pumpkin, kershaws
30 Lizzie set out tomatoes
April
5 Planted Butter Beans
20 Prepared 3 rows for sweet potatoes
24 Plowed ground for Madame, for corn. Set out 1 row sweet potatoes
25 Did set out one row sweet potatoes
26 Set one row potatoes
27 Planted in orchard, corn, okra, beans, hoed butter beans
May
5 Josh cut bean poles
6 Hauled & stuck bean poles
7 Still at bean poles
8 Finished sticking bean poles
14 Set out potatoes
15 Set out potatoes—we have now 10 rows
16 Josh hoed corn at creek—self potatoes
17 Thinned & hoed Lizzie’s corn
31 First roasting ear
June
1 Set out 4 rows potatoes
25 Fixed tomatoes P. M.
July
19 Picked tomatoes
23 Set out 7½ rows potatoes
August
26 Went out in rain & got load pumpkins
27 Sowed turnips
September
7 Planted eschalottes
October
No Entry
November
4 Harry began digging potatoes
7 Finished potatoes—40 bushels
December
No Entry