A farmer works in acres not hours.
4/22/2021 – Yesterday we pruned the row of azaleas between the backyard and the barnyard. Today, pruned the camellia and azalea outside the dressing and bedroom room window and the one south of the blueberries. The limbs, piled high, filled the truck and were hauled to the burn pile. We trimmed them a bit lower […]
Continue Reading4/20/2021 – The Tehama lettuce was bolting and tough and a few weeds were coming in the empty spaces. Pulled out the weeds with the wobble hoe and Mary sowed Parris Island, Buttercrunch, and Salad Bowl Lettuce. She also sowed Leisure Coriander seeds we ordered from HOSS.
Continue ReadingThe two extended heavy rains in the past two weeks made the soft dirt in the garden feel like walking on concrete. Today the soil was dry enough to get on it with Fergie and the plows not create a lot of wet dirt clods that would dry hard. Moved the inner plows to __ […]
Continue Reading4/20/2021 – The volunteer Beach Sunflowers in the garden need to be moved and only a few have come up in the crepe myrtle beds and rose bed along the rail fence of the pond yard. We transplanted them into the crepe beds in the pond yard after turning over the soil with the garden […]
Continue Reading4/20/2021 – Last year’s spraying the lawn with Weed Free Zone worked well but we have a lot of Florida Betony, Spider Wort, and more back this year. We did not spray before the greening of the grass so will do so now that it is more mature. The plans below begin with calibrating the […]
Continue Reading4/19/2021 – Because termites were a problem with the firewood last year we treated the dirt before placing the pecan firewood from the recent tree removals. Poured a 2% solution of Bifintren-IT 7.9% between the log supports after digging out the leaves and debris to create trenches. Poured a total of 12 gallons mixed in […]
Continue Reading4/17/2021 – This will be the first fungicide treatment for daylily rust and uses a combination spray of a contact and a systemic product. Our 2020 post here has a lot of great info and was the guide for this treatment using Propiconazole 14.3 (the systemic) and Daconil (the contact fungicide). We repeated what was […]
Continue Reading
The first part of March was dry then there was some rain including a 2.06″ one in the last week. April made up for any deficiency in two extended multi-day rains with the first totaling 4.87″ and the second totaling 5.81″. And, there were only three days between the end of the first and the […]
Continue Reading4/17/2021 – Year before last we had four Hibiscus along the meter/switch-box wall and that winter three of them were killed by the cold temperatures. One survived, came back, and did ok last year. This winter again almost killed it but it has leaves coming up out of the mulch. Researching what to feed a […]
Continue Reading4/15/2021 – On a cloudy afternoon sprayed the satsumas, orange and lemon trees with Spinosad to hopefully prevent leaf miners for damaging the leaves.
Continue Reading