A farmer works in acres not hours.
5/4/2025 – After several good rains (over 2″) in the past 3 days, and on hills made several weeks ago with 13-13-13 under them, sowed Clemson Spinless okra with a no. 3 plate in the HOSS Seader with every-other hole taped closed with cellophane tape on the underside of the plate. Should have seeds spaced […]
Continue Reading4/21/2025 – Planted 42 Big Beef and Better Boy tomatoes in the two south-half, westernmost rows. The Big Beefs are in the westernmost row, and the Better Boys are in the next row immediately east. Note that several days ago, we sowed a band of Marigold seeds saved from last year just west of where […]
Continue Reading4/19/2025 – Sowed saved Zinnia seeds in bed outside office/guest room windows; along west grass edge of the north half; and at Lady’s grave.
Continue Reading4/4/2025 – This application was based on the application on 2/21/2024 pasted below. In addition to what we did then, we added 2 1.5 lb. jugs of Extinguish Ant Bait (minus 25/150 or 17%), some for the spreader) mixed in the wheelbarrow in the back of the truck and loaded into the spreader bought at […]
Continue Reading4/3/2025 – Fertilized the blueberries with 13-6-6 Slow Release with minerals. They have a lot of blooms.
Continue Reading4/3/2025 – Given the aphids found in some of the daylily clumps, we bought more Imidacloprid and added it to the daylily feeding drench we used (called it The Concoction) before finding the 13-6-6 slow release bought at the fertilizer plant. We left out the Miracle Grow. The 4-gallon recipe below was applied to all […]
Continue Reading3/28/2025 – Bought two roses at Ted and Nancy’s (now Ted’s Fruitstand) and replaced (a) the sickly rose immediately north of the white floribunda and (b) the one in the corner next to the bird feeder. Moved those to the Grain Bin. (a) Sexy Rexy Floribunda (MACrexy) grown by Weeks Roses. Color is Coral Pink. […]
Continue Reading2/26/2025 – In the greenhouse on her new work bench, Mary sowed 24 Better Boys and 22 Big Beef tomato seeds in ~3-in. deep 2×2 plastic pots. Positioned them on the HOSS warming mat spread on the 2″ styrofoam insulation panel.
Continue Reading2/25/2025 – The yard has a lot of weeds. Sprayed 2 qts on Front, east side, back and Spider Wort near Martin house. Should have taken 1.25 quarts in 8 gal water. Mixed more at 0.75 Qts in 5 gal that included the little the suction could not get. Going too slow??? Started at 1H […]
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