A farmer works in acres not hours.
7/29/2023 – Birds have dropped acorns in the blueberry bushes. The little oaks were cut off and the stumps “painted” with Remedy plus diesel. The mixture was in a pint jar that was half filled with diesel (8 oz.) then 2 oz. of remedy added and a splash of non-ionic surfactant. Shook it to mix […]
Continue Reading07/28/2023 – Cut the tops out of the blueberry bushes as the berries are gone. After years of thinking they need to be shorter, we finally pruned them down to about 6-7 feet tall. That was about 1.5 feet shorter than in the past. The debris filled the truck bed. 07/31/2023
Continue Reading7/19/2023 – 4 oz/gallon with Backpack sprayer with TeeJet red tip on a hot afternoon.
Continue Reading7/18/2023 – Last week sprayed the weeds along the edge but it showered within a hour. Then had a hard rain and it got out of its banks. Only the soft-stem broadleaf weeds died. Resprayed big pond edge for weeds with Shoreclear at 4oz/gal.
Continue Reading7/18-19/2023 – Sprayed Wet-n-Forget on the side patio twice as it soaked in fast. Almost a full hose-end container was applied. Yesterday sprayed the back patio.
Continue Reading7/16/2023 – Pulled up the 2 southmost citrus trees near the west side of driveway and the pear tree at the NE corner of the Lady Daylily Bed. The Blood Orange had never borne fruit and was damaged by the deep freezes this past winter. The satsuma has two main trunks about 18 inches above […]
Continue Reading7/7/2023 – Found carpenter ants in 8-10 pecan trees in the orchard. Also in the northmost tree next to the pole barn and the southmost tree near the house that had been struck by lightning. Killed them with Bifrin IT at 1 oz/gal. They were also around the Sand Pear tree and the Old Oak.
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Continue Reading6/27/2023 – Sowed Kentucky Wonder Bush Beans where the cabbage had tried and the heat and bugs did not let it produce. Sowed them 6 inches apart from 2 packets of 50 seeds each. 100 seeds at 6 inches OC should have made a 50-foot row but they only filled about 30 feet of the […]
Continue Reading6/27/2023 – Side Dressed the okra with 33-0-0 after weeding. The cabbage plants we bought and the ones that came up that we sowed had been eaten badly. Decided not to spray them as the heat of summer will surely not let them produce heads. Will sow Kentucky Wonder Beans in the row this afternoon […]
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