A farmer works in acres not hours.
1/24/2022 – Disked the areas below to get ready to plow in a week or so. The Elbon Rye in the south half was disked N-S then E-W then N-S. The north half was disked multiple times in the narrow parts and N-S then diagonally in the other areas; between the spinach and the west […]
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12/19/2021 – Wayne Maples began excavation of wildlife pond just north of Rangers field; aka the old garden. 12/25/2021 – Measured locations and used Google Earth to compute areas. Also took pH readings in the bowl and the black topsoil. All was 6.8 – 7.0 that is likely due to the Driskell’s liming the field […]
Continue Reading11/30/2021 – Fertilized the very young spinach, carrots, and radishes with 33-0-0 then water it in well. Planted three varieties of onions from HOSS in Mary’s garden in three rows near the north end. Red Creole (Southmost row) , Plethora (short center row as few plants survived), and Savannah Sweet (northmost row) are all short-day […]
Continue Reading9/3/2021 – Ants are beginning to be too prevalent so we need to spread more Extinguish but do not want to spread fertilizer. Bought 4.5 lbs so we should be able to cover 3 acres. The goal here is to spread it, without blending, in the cyclone seeder at the rate per the label. To […]
Continue Reading11/28/2021 Product image Description Quantity Price 1 Squash Honeynut SeedSeed / Treated / 25 Seeds 1 $3.19 1 Zinnia Benary’s Giant Mix SeedSeed / Untreated / 250 SeedsBackorder date: On backorder. Estimated due week of 09-16-22 1 $8.74 1 Squash Autumn Frost F1 SeedSeed / Treated / 25 Seeds 1 $4.98 1 Thyme Ayelet Organic […]
Continue Reading11/27/2021 – Mixed 1 tablespoon of Borax into two gallons of water in the green plastic can and sprinkled it on about 70 feet of row of carrots. baby beets and radishes.
Continue Reading11/17/2021 – Sidedressed with 8-8-8: Tomatoes Onions Radishes Bok Choi Cabbage Brocolli Mustard
Continue Reading11/15/2021 – Several cabbage plants and scattered leaves in the mustard and radishes have ragged holes eaten in the leaves. Sprayed them with Spinosad.
Continue Reading11/14/2021 – Last week we had two days with a light frost but this morning we had a hard frost with the air temperature just below freezing. With the predicted low to be 34°, we knew it would be colder here. We put the frost sheets over the tomatoes and picked all the peppers.
Continue ReadingSprayed WFZ at 2 oz. per gallon using the pull-behind sprayed in the Gator. That would be about 2/3 oz/1000SF that is low but higher than the last time and that time worked ok. Sprayed: Between the east row and center row of pecan trees from the road to one tree away from the Tack […]
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