Fertilized Magnolias and Fruit Trees
4/9/2024 – Fertilized the trees listed below with 13-13-13. Some of them should have been fertilized last month.
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Feed Citrus and Blueberries
2/12/2022 – Spread 8-8-8 on Citrus and Blueberries. The citrus trees got 4-6 handfuls scattered 1-2 feet outside the drip line. The small blueberries east of the barn got 3-4 handfuls and the old row got 6-8 handfuls on the average out to 3-4 feet beyond the drip line.
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7/25/2021 – Fed the blueberries now that all berries have dropped or were harvested. The large bushes got about a pound and the small ones 1/2 pound minutes before a light rain. Watch for the tips of the plant’s leaves turning brown and dry. If they do then reduce the fertilization rate to 1/4 pound […]
Continue ReadingDrenched Fruit Trees with Imidacloprid
4/25/2021 – Drenched Fruit Trees with Imidacloprid to hopefully prevent leaf miners. Mixed 4 oz. per gallon and poured around each smaller tree about 3 qts. and the larger one about 5 qts. The trees in the yard’s Fruit Tree Grove and the Satsuma in the orchard are listed below. Blood Orange Meyer Lemons Peach […]
Continue ReadingFertilized Citrus Trees with Peters Citrus
3/4/2021 – The Jacks Citrus FeED 20-10-20 by JR Peters arrived today. Mixed it per the instructions at 1 tbsp per gallon; i.e. 2 tbsp in the 2-gallon watering cans. Poured one can—2 gallons—on each of the lemon, satsuma trees, and the blood orange tree; including the one at the garden. The Meyer lemon was […]
Continue ReadingFertilized Citrus Trees
3/3/2021 – Fertilized lightly with 8-8-8+sulfur the citrus trees in the yard and the satsuma next to the garden.
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Pruned the Pear and Peach Trees
1/31/2021 – We cleaned out and shaped the peach and the two pear trees in the southwest corner of the yard. Following the advice from the links in Our Calendar.
Continue ReadingRelocated Original Blueberries
1/5 & 6/2021 – We moved the two blueberry bushes Mom and Dad planted to the locations where the pond field becomes the barnyard and along the ditch. The bushes have not produced much the past three years; likely due to the being in the shade of the now no-so-small oak and the pecan.
Continue ReadingStewart Pecan Yield
11/16/2020 – Picked up 35 lbs cracked stewart pecans at Tanner Feed that resulted from the 97 lbs. we took them. They were mostly from the trees in the orchard that had been picked up using the new Bag-a-Nut. Then cleaned by three times across the air stream of the fan and picking out the […]
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Meyer Lemons Near Ripe
11/8/2020 – This is the second year for the two Meyer Lemons and both have borne a good crop. The west one is really loaded. Winter of 2020-21 we had three extended freezes into the low to mid 20°. The Meyer lemon that bore profusely last season tried to come back but did not and […]
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