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2/9/2020 – Justice Williamson completed the 1-1/4″ PVC pipe from the pump to the pond. Water began flowing at 11:15 AM. With the ball valve fully open the water only trickled in the house. With it at 50% we the pressure in the house is ok. We timed how long it took to fill a […]
Continue Reading2/7/2020 – Ordered 500 Flat Head Minnows and 500 Copper Nose Bluegills from Alabama Fish & Pond for pickup at St. Elmo Feed and Seed on 2/21/2020. Cost will be $290. The lady said: In the summer we could seed bass fingerlings at 50:1 Given the pond is a bit muddy could feed them a […]
Continue Reading2/7/2020 – Sprayed 41% Glyphosate at 6 oz/gallon on the Florida Betony in Crape Bed along the road fence. This is a test to see if the high strength Gly will kill it per the advice in various places. Observation – The higher strength solution did kill it. Controlling Florida Betony in the Landscape by the […]
Continue Reading2/7/2020 – The ryegrass seed spread last week has sprouted and is 1″ high but thin. Birds have eaten some and likely some washed into the pond. The water level is maybe a foot higher since the 2.21″ rain the past two days. Spread about 4 gallons of seed in the thin areas and into […]
Continue Reading2/3/2020 – Used the hose-end sprayer to drench it for aphids.
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2/2/2020 – We wet enough Jiffy Seed Starting Mix to fill the 72 cells in a tray. The mix is composed of peat moss, coconut coir, and vermiculite. With them filled by what fell in we pushed down each one to remove some of the air and had cells that were 1/2 to 2/3’s full. […]
Continue Reading2/2/2020 – The front lawn has Florida Betony coming up all over and in some places it is solid. There are other weeds including henbit also scattered in the turf. After much research into herbicides, we settled on ferti-lome’s Weed Free Zone (WFZ) with a non-ionic spreader sticker. On Jan. 25th, I sprayed it on […]
Continue ReadingThe three crapes along the east side of the driveway have not grown since planting in September 2017. The only thing we can find that might be the problem is that they are planted low with pine bark mulch over the top of the root ball. The root ball should have been left exposed. We […]
Continue Reading1/27/2020 – Fed the following 13-13-13 spread by throwing handfuls around the trees. All citrus in the yard citrus grove and the satsuma in the big garden. The peach and pear trees in the grove and the old Sand Pear next to the big garden
Continue Reading1/27/2020 – Spread 10 gallons of Pecan wood ashes from the fireplace and fire pit under Pecan tree No. 10. — third from the road in the center row.
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