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
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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