Sprayed Tomatoes and Okra with Spinosad
6/17/2025
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Ordered Fall 2025 Marigold and Zinnia Seed
6/17/2025 – 5 Items $35.65 Benary’s Giant Mix Benary’s Giant MixZinnia Seed Size: Packet In Stock Each: $5.40 Quantity: 2 Total $10.80 Giant Orange Giant OrangeMarigold Seed Size: Packet In Stock Each: $5.95 Quantity: 1 Total $5.95 Giant Yellow Giant YellowMarigold Seed Size: Packet In Stock Each: $5.95 Quantity: 1 Total $5.95Ballerina BallerinaZinnia Seed Size: 100 Seeds In […]
Continue ReadingSprayed 2,4-D on Pond Yard, Orchard & Around the Garden with Ag Sprayer
From the 2,4-D Amine page here. Area Sprayed Mix Calculations
Continue ReadingSpread Extinguish on Yard – June 3, 2025
Spread the one medium jug of Extinguish that is advertised to treat 1 acre, adding time-release fertilizer on the: As the cyclone seeder cannot spread it at the very low rate to do a jug over an acre and the jug is only half full, I added enough time-release fertilzer to double the volume. Shook […]
Continue ReadingSprayed spinosad and moved Okra seedlings into gaps.
5/31/2025 Sprayed spinosad on tomatoes for lg grn worms and lightly sprayed peppers just in case. Moved Okra seedlings that were too close into gaps where seeds did not germinate. Used push plow with rippers to do corn middles for crab grass and with stirrup hoe along the tiny peas, squash, and cucumbers.
Continue ReadingSowed: Squash, Cukes, Corn, & Sunflowers: May 2025
5/6/2025 – Sowed: Squash, Cukes, & Corn in the South Half Seed bed preparation was: About 4 PM, even though we were very tired, used the HOSS push plow with the stirrup weeder to weed and fluff up swaths in the wide Sunflower row in the south half, western most row. Sprinkled in saved sunflower […]
Continue ReadingSowed Okra, May 2025
5/4/2025 – After several good rains (over 2″) in the past 3 days, and on hills made several weeks ago with 13-13-13 under them, sowed Clemson Spinless okra with a no. 3 plate in the HOSS Seader with every-other hole taped closed with cellophane tape on the underside of the plate. Should have seeds spaced […]
Continue ReadingPlanted Tomatoes April 2025
4/21/2025 – Planted 42 Big Beef and Better Boy tomatoes in the two south-half, westernmost rows. The Big Beefs are in the westernmost row, and the Better Boys are in the next row immediately east. Note that several days ago, we sowed a band of Marigold seeds saved from last year just west of where […]
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