A farmer works in acres not hours.
5/21 & 22/2019 – We used the floor sprayer on the carport and it looks a lot better. We used the wide white spray head on the brick. Mary washed the brick with the hose immediately before I hit it with the pressure washer. Then she rinsed it after I finished and before it dried […]
Continue Reading5/21/2019 – Aron brought a guy and large backhoe and cleaned out the ditch behind Peggy’s house where their feeder yearlings had played on the slopes and raised the flowline at least a foot. He also cleaned out both ends of their culvert and removed the old rusted out metal culvert at the barn.
Continue Reading5/21/2019 – The three rows of Silver King Corn looks pale and in need of nitrogen. Side dressed it with 34-0-0 + a little lime.
Continue ReadingThe little pink climbing roses on either side of the front gate bloomed heavy for weeks then all of a sudden most blooms turned blackish, shriveled and fell apart over the past 2 days. For the past 3-4 days, some of the blooms on the two white hybrid tea roses in the Bay Tree bed […]
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5/20/2019 – We started this morning about 7 AM and worked until 9:30 in the garden and accomplished the following: Enjoyed the first-ever squash and zucchini harvest of 2 large zucchini and four 6″ long yellow squash. In the photo below are three zucchini as I picked one yesterday. Thinned the cantaloupes to two plants […]
Continue ReadingLightly fertilized all Crepes with 15-0-15 other than the Sunset Magics. Also did the very young ones along the orchard side of the north-south 4-board fence and the ones at the grain bin. Per The Crape Myrtle Company, they should be fed with a light application of a balanced fertilizer every 2 weeks during the […]
Continue Reading5/19/2019 – Thinned again the first 3 rows of Nemagreen lima beans (rows 10, 11 and 12) to 3″-6″ spacing. Many that pulled up had a lot of roots so planted them deep (~3″) in the gaps. Found 8-10 corn stalks about the 7th T-Post from the south fence in Row 2 where the leaves […]
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5/18/2019 – For the past 3 months we have worked to remove the 20+ years of hay string in the area of the old garden immediately north of the new garden. Of course, the removal of the string will never end but we got the worst of it and what is left that we can […]
Continue Reading5/18/2019 – Mary had ordered the bulbs along with the glads from American Meadows and planted them in the bed immediately south of the kitchen door among the daylilies. She planted a bag of 25 Acidanthera Callianthus, commonly known as the Peacock Orchid, whose “beautiful blooms produce a sweet scent, adding a delicate allure to […]
Continue Reading5/17/2019 – General weeding, of course, and sprayed Sevin on the peas & beans as follows: PEPH – New growth shows curling as before Kentucky Wonder Bush – Not much damage so sprayed along the top Texas Creme Peas – Young but there is a lot of leaf curling. More so that the PEPH. Mary […]
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