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8/22/2021 – The nine Celebrity tomatoes are doing well and most have flowers or buds. Today we: Early in the morning sprayed them with mancozeb as a preventative. They do not yet show any disease. Drop on then scratched in a wide “donut” about two handfuls of pecan firewood ash saved from last winter. Installed […]
Continue Reading8/22/2021 – The hydrangeas, particularly in the backyard, have gotten large brown areas that are anthracnose caused by Colletotrichum gloeosporioides per Clemson Cooperative Extension here. Sprayed them with Mancozeb made up a few days ago. Ran out of the mix of mancozeb before could spray the ones in the front yard. Mixed up Daconil that […]
Continue Reading8/21/2021 – Ordered from Johnny’s Seeds: White Swan (F1) Marigold Seed $16.00 Size: 100 Seeds ID: 4641.50 Dunja Organic (F1) Zucchini Squash Seed $4.90 Size: Packet 30 seeds
Continue Reading8/21/2021 – The Betternut and Spagehitti squash seedlings have been damaged by Flea Bettles that are all over them. Sprayed them with malathion. Did not see any on the tomatoes but sprayed them lightly anyway as their row is only two from the squash. There are a few blooms on the tomatoes.
Continue Reading8/20/2021 – The last spraying was 7/23/2021 and this outbreak is not as much as then. The water level is also down about a foot and the filimentous algae only extends out 4-6 feet based on what can been seen through the water. So, again sprayed up to 5-6 ft. out with a mix of […]
Continue ReadingThe grassed space south of the pond from the rail fence to 40 feet from the water’s edge is 20,800 SF. It contains many weeds in the original bahiagrass and sown Bermuda grass. This spray is to kill them and hopefully the dewberries. Sprayer Parameters Ironton Sprayer with the new pump sprays 3/8 of a […]
Continue Reading8/18/2021 – Finally installed a hydrant along the rail fence in the daylily bed at the gate to the pond yard. It is on the 3/4″ PVC line that runs across the road to the livestock’s water tank. Mary is happy and watered the Lady Bed, the roses at the driveway gate, and the citrus, […]
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8/16/2021 – We hung the 2nd sunshade on the north end of the greenhouse to hopefully lower the temperature. As we could not get the silver one like is on the south end we got a 65% Ultra Tan Shade Cloth – 7′ x 12′ from The Shade Cloth Store The first shade cloth, on […]
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8/16/2021 – Mary planted two of the new daylilies from Oakes Daylilies in two rows in the south end of her garden. AUGUST FLAME, 3 each BLOOM SIZE – 5 1/4? HEIGHT – 38? BLOOM SEASON – Late Season FOLIAGE TYPES – Dormant HYBRIDIZER – Woods (1967) BLOOM PERIOD – June-July Hyperion – 3 each […]
Continue Reading8/16/2021 – Sprayed Epsom Salts mixed at 1 Tbsp per gallon on the roses, tomatoes, and peppers. The peppers are not bearing much so we’ll see if this helps. Sprayed the tomatoes just because they were there and it could not hurt. Sprayed the roses to coincide with the feeding our Concoction two days ago […]
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