A farmer works in acres not hours.
11/8/2020 – This is the second year for the two Meyer Lemons and both have borne a good crop. The west one is really loaded. Winter of 2020-21 we had three extended freezes into the low to mid 20°. The Meyer lemon that bore profusely last season tried to come back but did not and […]
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11/6/2020 – Widened the daylily & camillia bed in the front yard along the 4-board orchard fence to 4.5 ft. Relocated two daylilies to even out spacing and moved __ daylilies from the nursery to the new space in front of the current daylilies.
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11/5/2020 – We removed the Tia Basil and a ragged sweet basil from her garden. She left one sweet basil. In that space she planted 4 close rows of Buttercrunch Lettuce that did well last spring.
Continue Reading11/5/2020 – Bought 500 fathead minnows (to the 500 that were added in February this year) and 100 Shellcrackers from Alabama Fish & Pond truck at St. Elmo F&S. The guy said there were probably 600-700 minnows in their bag. Told him that our Coppernose Bluegills we got from him last February are 5″-6″ long. […]
Continue Reading11/1/2020 – After the wind from Hurricane Zeta blew the south side of the large Knock Out rose immediately west of the front porch the blackened stalks in the center and dead canes were more visible. Cut them out. Research into why the azalea in the backyard row has dead stalks lead to understanding about […]
Continue Reading11/4/2020 – Sidedressed Chinese cabbage planted Aug 16 but should have done so 4 weeks after sowing seed per Mississippi State Extension Service here. Two days ago Mary harvested what little Luculius Chard had come up. Sidedressed it with 33-0-0.
Continue ReadingLow temperature was 34.9° with the dew point at 33.9°. The roof of the house was white with frost and the grass in around the pond had some frost. At day break could find no frost in the garden.
Continue Reading11/1/2020 – Mary sowed two rows of Tehama lettuce in the north end of her garden.
Continue Reading10/31/2020 – Last Saturday, we took 62 lbs. of Farley and Shoshoni pecans to Tanner Feed to be cracked and blowed/cleaned. Today we picked up 17 lbs good of halves, pieces, some shells, and a some off-color halves. That is 27% of the original 62 lbs. We picked out the off-color ones and shell pieces. […]
Continue Reading10/29/2020 – The north and the west ones were all the way over lying to the north. Dug out some of the muck on the south side and stood them up. The south shorter one—south most—only went over to about 45°. Set four new T-posts (i.e. one additional) to support them.
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