A farmer works in acres not hours.
5/27/2019 – Built a wire-on-T-Posts support structure for the indeterminate tomatoes in Row 18. The posts are 6-8 feet apart and the wire is some high-tensile wire Dad used with his electric fence. Used a green cotton garden twine to wrap the main vines. Tied a loop in the top and made a slip note […]
Continue Reading5/18/2019 – Used Fergie and the 5′ bush hog to mow the tall weeds and dead rye grass in the Pond Field, the old garden, and the burn pile field. Fergie died as I pulled into the driveway from mowing the pond field. After adding more diesel–that it may be needed–it still did not crank. […]
Continue Reading5/25/2019 – Susan Knippenberg had visited Africa and brought back some okra seed where the pod is stripped. She had planted it in her yard in Atlanta and brought Frank some pods to plant the seeds. He gave us one pod and today when Peggy asked if any had come up I replied no…as I […]
Continue Reading5/25/2019 – Found them and sprayed with Sevin about 7 AM. At 10:00 I could not find any.
Continue Reading5/24/2019 – Bush hogged the weeds in the strip on the north side of the ditch and the newly planted peanut field from the crossing to Peggy’s pecan trees. There were a lot of nettles getting ready to bloom.
Continue ReadingThe fertilizer used in this first spring garden was as follows. Broadcast before anything planted – 15-0-15 with 2% iron by AGRI-AFC LLC on Dawes Rd. Side dressing – 33-0-0 Nitrogen with Sulfur plus Lime Total Nitrogen ………………………………33% 10.50% Ammoniacal Nitrogen 22.50% Urea Nitrogen Sulfur (Combined as S) …………… 12% Derived from Urea, Ammonium Sulfate […]
Continue ReadingWe pulled all the rest of the Texas 1015Y, Texas Early White, and Red Creole bulb onions as there were none that had not been at least to some extent wind damaged. We have about a dozen Texas Sweet and Texas early that are 2″ or larger and a lot of small ones. The red […]
Continue Reading5/23/2019 – Now, with the brick clean, I sprayed the gables, the soffits, and around the windows with Martin’s Permethrin SFR at 28 ml (1 oz.) in the 1.5-gallon pump-up sprayer. Cleaned the windows of the spray, dust, bugs, and bird crashes. Also sprayed inside the firewood shed.
Continue ReadingSprayed Daylilies for Rust and Roses for black spot and botrytis. The frequency of the Rust on the daylilies is much less than when we started spraying…but there is still some. The roses’ botrytis that was/is destroying blooms on the little pink roses at the gate and the hybrid teas at the Bay Tree bed […]
Continue Reading5/22/2019 – Driskell Cotton Farms finished planting peanuts in the field north of the house. There was a longer time than in the past between the cows leaving and this planting. They had a lot more grass than needed for the cows and so baled it–over 100 round bails. Then the field was subsoiled with […]
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