Thinned Cucumbers & Cantaloupes
4/22/2020 – Thinned the cucumbers to 18-24″ apart. Thinned cantaloupes that are in hills 4′ apart to 2-3 plants.
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Sprayed Sedgehammer in the yard
4/22/2020 – Mixed one of the two 1-gallon packets of Sedgehammer+ in the 24-D pump up sprayer and sprayed the sedge in the: backyard from the pecans to the pump and kitchen yard. The Active Ingredient is Halosulfuron-methyl 5% Targets: Purple Nutsedge, Yellow Nutsedge, Kyllinga
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Sowing & Planting the yard garden
4/21/2020 – As the pH is better–after the fiasco with to much cottonseed meal–Mary sowed: Salad Bowl lettuce Burpees’ Bloomsdale Long Spinach Tehama Lettuce Champion Radish Snow Peas – Ho Lan Dow Oregon Giant Dwarf Snow Pea
Continue ReadingReplacement Blue Plumbagos
4/21/2020 – The three large white plumbagos we planted last year– in the Crape bed along the rail fence–did not make it through the winter. We planted three one-gallon blue ones bought from Ted & Nancy’s Vegetable Stand. Dug out what looked like independent little ones from the plant in the bed at the house. […]
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Removed Fence at Pond, Buried Dog Fence, Mowed away the weeds
4/18 & 19/2020 – We rented an EZ-Trencher from Sunbelt Rental to bury the Extreme Dog Fence, Second Generation, 2020, Standard Grade Kit Package by Extreme Dog Fence with 1,500 feet of wire. The trencher digs great but since you have to pull it backwards it is impossible to maintain a straight line. A low cost […]
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More Rail Fence Installed
Paul Farill and Justin Lee, with a lot of help from Sylvia, completed Rail Fence: along the road at the pond; on the property line between us and Peggy/Frank back to the ditch; the N-S fence on the west side of the old garden field either side of the new shed. Peg/Frank also had them […]
Continue ReadingSowed Beach Sunflowers in NW Corner of Pond Yard
4/17/2020 – We had 15-20 Beach Sunflower Seeds left from the pack planted in the garden. Sowed them in a very small area. Raked it to loosen the black dirt, sprinkled them on, raked them, then walked it down.
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Burned Large Pile of Trees from Ditch
4/16/2020 – Burned the large pile Wayne Maples built of the tallow and scrub trees that were in the ditch. 5 PM, 4/17/2020 – Paul Farill, having finished the rail fence project this afternoon, pushed the burned out pile back together. The next morning it was smoking heavily and did so all day.
Continue ReadingSowed Daikon Radish Seeds
4/15/2020 – We have a lot of seeds left from last year and an empty row 15 in the North Half just east of the tomatoes. Sowed the north half of that row (about 30 feet) as a double row of Daikons using the HOSS seeder with plate 3 set to 3/4″ deep. This is […]
Continue ReadingSowed Beech Sunflowers, Marigolds, and Zinnias in the Garden
4/15/2020 – Sowed sunflowers, marigolds, and zinnia varities listed below. Followed the advice at Old Farmer’s Almanac here for the zinnias and here for the marigolds. 1 Beach Sunflower (Cucumber-Leaf) Sunflower – S-half, eastmost row SESE 2 French Marigold, Lemon Drop – N-half, eastmost row, next to Naughty Marietta SESE 3 French Marigold, Naughty Marietta […]
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