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2/12/2022 – Bought ½ lb. Kentucky Wonder Bush Beans and 2 lb. yellow onion sets at G&D Feed. We also bought a cypress wood duck house for the little pond, 2 sacks of horse feed, 1 sack of fish food, and a 5-gallon gas can. Ordered a galvanized predator guard from Amazon for the duck […]
Continue Reading2/5/2022 – Ordered from HOSS: Product Total Goldprize Squash × 1 $4.99 Hoss Germination Mat (100 Watt) 20.75? wide x 48? long $74.99 Germination Thermostat × 1 $49.99 Subtotal: $129.97 Shipping: Free Over $99 (US 48 States) Tax: $0.00 Payment method: Credit/Debit Card Total: $129.97
Continue Reading2/3/2022 – Mary sowed 28 Betterboy tomato seeds that arrived today from Harris Seeds. Sowed in 3″ pots in the Greenhouse. The seeds had been treated with Thiram. Germination requires them to be at 75-80° with a minimum of 45°. At this hour, another line of storms is blowing in and the temp is 80°. […]
Continue Reading2/3/2021 – Ordered from Johnny’s Seeds: Prospera® DMR (CG1) Organic (F1) Basil Seed ID: 3597G.11 Size: Packet Price:$5.15 Sugar Cube (F1) Melon Seed ID: 4399.11 Size: Packet Price:$5.80
Continue Reading2/2/2022 – To get ready for plowing, we harvested the remaining cabbage and broccoli. The beets were still less than 3″ high and the spinach was small and tough. The mustard could have provided a few “messes” but Mary said NO. So, that meant it went to kill RKNs, hopefully. Disked it all in and […]
Continue Reading1/31/2022 – Pruned out the small stuff, crossing limbs, dead limbs, and suckers from all crepe myrtles.
Continue Reading1/31/2021 – As done successfully in 2021, sprayed 6oz/gal Glyphosate of FL betony in east daylily bed at the orchard, along the Crepe bed by the road and the bed beside the guest room and office.
Continue Reading1/29/2022 – Checked the pH with the meter along four east-west lines as cited below. At the pear tree: East 6.4 – 6.5 – at Weather Sta., 6.0 – west 5.7 (1) At the satsuma: East 6.2 – 6.5 – west 5.0 Near 2nd pecan: 6.5 – 6.6 – 6.4 At south pecan: 6.6 – […]
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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 […]
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