A farmer works in acres not hours.
7/6/2019 – Sprayed all locations cited below with new Sevin. The Blood Orange, Meyer Lemons, and Owari Satsuma in the SW corner of the yard are all showing leaf damage consisting of leaf borers and curling leaves from aphids. The lemon neares the street had the least damage. Again, the varmints are not evident. Also […]
Continue Reading3/27/2019 – Bought a Brown Select Satsuma and two “Julia Child” gold floribunda roses at Sessions. The Julia Child rose, known in the UK as the Absolutely Fabulous rose, is a golden butter or golden floribunda rose, named after the chef Julia Child. WikipediaScientific name: Rosa ‘Julia Child’ Higher classification: RoseCultivar: ‘WEKvossutono’. Origin: Tom Carruth; (United States, […]
Continue Reading3/2/2019 – Fertilized the Blue Berries and Aspidistra with 34-0-0.
Continue ReadingBought at Blair’s a 3 gallon Flordaking (aka Florida King) Peach and a 3-gallon Pineapple Pear. They were $30 each and were grown at Bracy’s Nursery, LLC, Amite, LA 70422. The Pear is to grow 15′ high and 10′ wide. The peach is to grow to 25′ high and 25′ wide.
Continue Reading11/10/2018 – For the past several weeks I have enjoyed collecting the different pecans and studying pecan websites and papers to identify the “cultivars”. Of course, that lead to a new part of this website Pecans, and the pages for each of the ten cultivars of the 39 pecan trees in the orchard, barnyard, and […]
Continue ReadingThe week began the afternoon of Saturday, July 2, 2016. Saturday & Sunday During the night two 2″ diameter limbs fell out of the pecan tree next to the yard and second tree from the road. Edged and trimed yard and road’s ditch banks. Picked up limbs and cleaned up for family gathering Sunday afternoon. […]
Continue ReadingBegan on Sunday, June 29, and worked in the morning, long break during the heat of midday and then again from 4 pm until we quit. Hot and humid but green and lush. Below are notes of what we did each day. Sunday – Ted had cut the grass Saturday so today I cut the ditch […]
Continue ReadingThis was an abnormal Thanksgiving as Mary and I spent Thanksgiving day in Houston with Kelley, Rocky and Rocky Sr. Jeff joined us later in the day. A nice day but not the same as this day has been for the past 38+ years: i.e. I have always been in Mobile But, this year we […]
Continue ReadingWhen we were here last month the figs were just forming and the blueberries were light green hard balls. By the time we left on July 4th we had about 15 or so figs, after eating some, and a quart of blue berries.
Continue ReadingPeggy Davis Knippenberg, a Partner of Sundown Farms, announced: ” Come and pick blueberries at Blue Moon Farm. We have plenty sweet, plump berries! For more info go to www.bluemoonfarm-grandbay.com.” Don’t forget how much blueberries can improve your health. If you pick them yourself and meet the growers then you know what you are eating. […]
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