Fertilized Magnolias and Fruit Trees
4/9/2024 – Fertilized the trees listed below with 13-13-13. Some of them should have been fertilized last month.
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Stake, Tied Up, & Side-dressed Tomatoes
4/8/2024 – Set stakes every other tomato and installed the first Florida Weave. Threw around each plant less than a 1/4 cup of 33-0-0. Mike Hart, a neighbor I had not met, stopped on his 4-wheeler to talk about gardening.
Continue ReadingOrdered New Dahlias
4/7/2024 – From American Meadows.
Continue ReadingSprayed Fence Rows for Weeds
4/4/2024 – Sprayed the fence rows around the areas listed below with 2,4-D Amine plus Glyphosate for weeds. Also used, as usual, Preference non-ionic surfactant.
Continue ReadingSowed Broadleaf Mustard
4/1/2024 – Sowed about 30 ft row 10-12 inches wide in the north end to the west coast row of the south half. That is the row next to the wide Sunflower row. This is about Row 65ft (measured from the east fence). The row had been hilled to about 6 inches high. Sprinkled the […]
Continue ReadingMoved Tomatoes to the Garden
1/30/2024 Links with good info: How to Grow Better Boy Tomatoes
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Added Grass Carp to the Ponds
3/27/2024 – Picked up 10 White Amur Grass Carp from the Alabama Fish & Pond truck at G&D. Put 8 in the big pond and two in the small pond. The plan is they will remove the filamentous algae in the big pond and not let it start in the little one.
Continue ReadingSeeds for Grow Boxes & Grape Tomatoes
3/27/2024 – Mary bought three Grape Tomato plants and the following seeds at G&D while we waited for the Carp fingerings. She plans to sow them in Grow Boxes
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Built Bed Next to the Front Walk
3/16/2024 – Completed a new bed along the front walkway from the east end of the driveway bed to the Daylilies at the SW corner of the house. This is where the Magnolia Frescati had been and part of its stump is now under the mulch. Tilled the sod and added about 4-6 inches of […]
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