Fed Citrus Trees & Compost
1/7/2021 – Feed the citrus trees 8-8-8 and the compost cage 66-0-0. Turned the compost where yesterday I added the lirope at the former location of the original blueberry bushes.
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Pruned the Crepe Myrtles
1/7/2021 – Pruned the small branches and a few larger ones that were growing toward the center of the Crepes.
Continue ReadingRelocated Original Blueberries
1/5 & 6/2021 – We moved the two blueberry bushes Mom and Dad planted to the locations where the pond field becomes the barnyard and along the ditch. The bushes have not produced much the past three years; likely due to the being in the shade of the now no-so-small oak and the pecan.
Continue ReadingApplied Mancozeb to the Camellias for Petal Blight
01/02/2021 – To prevent or at least reduce the impact of Petal Blight we sprinkled Mancozeb around the camellias per the advice here. We mixed it at roughly 0.88 oz per gallon in the new metal watering can with the sprinkler head. Sprinkled it 4-5 feet out from the trunk. Sprinkled it on the three […]
Continue ReadingFed Onions, Lettuce, Cilantro, & Pok Choi
1/1/2021 – Fed Fish Emulsion with Miracle Grow to: about 3 Tbsp of fish emulation with 1 Tbsp MG in the 2-gallon watering can to the following in Mary’s garden: All three lettuces the Cilantro the onions about 3 Tbsp of fish emulation with 1 Tbsp MG in the 2-gallon watering can to the following […]
Continue ReadingSoil Samples from the Garden, the Horse field, & the Pond Field
1/2/2021 – Dug up multiple small scopes of soil 3″-5″ down from the Garden, the Horse field, and the Pond Field. Spread the soil onto aluminum pizza pans and left outside to dry.
Continue ReadingReseeded Carrots and Beets
12/8/2020 – The carrots sowed two weeks ago in the former Marigold row did not germinate. Had a lot of Impersonator carrot seed so sowed them in a row 6″ or so west of the row that did not germinate…hoping some may still come up. The small beets in the row have not come back […]
Continue ReadingTested Pond pH & Alkalinity
Results with Aquacheck Test Strips pH – 6.2 Total Alkalinity – 0 Total Hardness – 25 ppm Results with API GH & KH Test Kit GH, General Hardness – 1 drop = 18 ppm KH – Total hardness – 1 drops
Continue ReadingSowed Mustard as Cover Crop for RKNs
12/3/2020 – Disked the former site of the two rows of Butternut and White Scalloped squash in the southeast corner of the south half. The squash vines had been removed on 12/1/2020 and there were few weeds. Sowed Florida Broadleaf Mustard with the Hoss Seeder with plate 1. That should have put one seed every […]
Continue Reading“Deep” Freezes & Plant Impacts
There have only been two light frosts so far this fall but now we dealt with two nights of temperatures in the mid-twenties. Both mornings there was a hard and heavy frost on everything. Nov. 30’s prediction was for a low of 28° for the area but here the low was 24.4° and it was […]
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