A farmer works in acres not hours.
10/15/2020 – Planted an 18-foot double-row of red onion bulbs from St. Elmo F&S in Row 8 between the Warrior Bunching Onions—that are 1″-2″ high needle-thin shoots—and the Tendergreen Spinach/Mustard. The row had been hilled last week so used the hoe to loosen it about 3″ deep. Raked it flat then used the hoe to […]
Continue Reading10/10/2020, mid-afternoon – The north 25 ft of row 5A had been hilled and so used the hoe to carve in a 3″-4″ deep groove. Spread bone meal and used the garden rake to pull the dirt on top of the bone meal—maybe 1 ” cover. Note: Hurricane Delta—now TS Delta—dumped 0.92″ of rain on […]
Continue Reading10/10/2020 – Bought at St. Elmo Feed and Seed: Bloomsdale Spinach Bok Choi Cabbage Lucullus Swiss Chard
Continue Reading10/9/2020 – Buried a new wire from a new junction box to a grease-cup splice at the little oak tree near the northwest most pole of the barn. The original wire goes from a new grey junction box 2′ from the pole to a new junction box halfway to the deck. See the plan image […]
Continue Reading10/8/2020 – Sprayed the lemons and satsumas with Spinosad for the second time in this series to stop the leaf miners.
Continue Reading10/6/2020 – Bryan Woodham called and said a plane would spread ryegrass seed over the cotton field this afternoon–no chemicals. The plane was fun to watch as usual. I passed the news on to our neighbors.
Continue Reading10/5/2020 – Used the hiller to build rows 5A & 5B where the pumpkins had been. The soil had been thoroughly disked so raced up an pulled up the rows….again forgetting to put the fertilizer down before hilling. Will have to fertilize differently and let it be an experiment. See below for how it was […]
Continue Reading10/3 & 4/2020 – We hung a 14′ gate–that was at the north end of the now 4-board fence along the orchard–at the entry from the old garden (aka Ranger’s field) to the lane. That frees up the two panels that were heavy and had to be lifted to pass through. Moved those two panels […]
Continue Reading10/4/2020 – With Fergie, bush hogged the weeds between the ditch and the electric fence and the ditch. In the afternoon, bush hogged the high weeds near the wood fence in the burn pile field. Also bush hogged the high bahia grass in the lane between the burn pile field and the pond yard.
Continue Reading10/1/2020 – Using the new Taylor soil thermometer the soil temps 2″ down in the big garden was 88° (soil that had been in the shade for about 30 minutes) to 92° for the nearby soil that was still in the sun and had been for 5+ hours on this almost cloudless day with the […]
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