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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 Reading4/25/2021 – 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 Reading3/4/2021 – 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 Reading3/3/2021 – Fertilized lightly with 8-8-8+sulfur the citrus trees in the yard and the satsuma next to the garden.
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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 Reading1/5 & 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 Reading11/16/2020 – 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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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 […]
Continue Reading10/31/2020 – Last Saturday, we took 62 lbs. of Farley and Shoshoni pecans to Tanner Feed to be cracked and blowed/cleaned. Today we picked up 17 lbs good of halves, pieces, some shells, and a some off-color halves. That is 27% of the original 62 lbs. We picked out the off-color ones and shell pieces. […]
Continue Reading9/28/2020 – Bought two Louisiana Sweets Hamlin Orange Trees from Harley F&S to plant in the pond yard west of the current fruit trees. We decided to plant them on the east edge of the big garden 25′ east of the sand pear and satsuma. That is the area of the marigolds and zinnias this […]
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