A farmer works in acres not hours.
First Early AM work in the Large Garden Mary & I worked in the large veggie garden while the sun was coming up behind the trees in the neighbor’s yard. We fertilized the tomatoes and bell pepper seedlings with fish emulsion, planted cucumber; watered pepper seeds and tomatoes. I used the 4-tine hoe to break […]
Continue Reading4/12/2019 – Mary & I worked in the large veggie garden where we: fertilized the bell pepper seedlings with fish emulsion, planted cucumber; watered pepper seeds and tomatoes
Continue ReadingUsed Frank’s hiller to pull up three more rows on the north end, west side next to the tomato sets. See notes below about the issues with the planter and the small quantities of seeds appearing to not dispense well.
Continue ReadingAs of April 8, 2019 Daylily Clumps – 81 Roses – 19 Hydrangeas – 7 Blue Plumbagos – 5 Crepe Myrtles – 9 + 4 in pots to be planted soon Azaleas Two Rows in the backyard One at the edge of Citrus Grove Two Encores at the gate One dwarf at the AC compressor […]
Continue Reading4/7/2019 – Planted a Brown Select Satsuma about 35 feet south of the Sand Pear in the large garden. We bought it at Sessions Farm Market. It was grown by Star Nursery, Belle Chase, LA. 4/14/2019, 2:30 AM – A line of thunderstorms blew through very early Sunday morning and a few limbs were blown […]
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4/7/2019 – Corn, pea seeds, and sweet pepper seeds were planted in the very dry beds on 3/28/2019. On 4/4 and 4/5 the dry spell was broken by a long slow 2.6″ of rain. Today, 3 days later, a few corn and pea seeds have sprouted. We used Frank’s hiller to make a bed on […]
Continue Reading4/3/2019 – Built a round compost bin with 48″ high field fence. Placed in next to the grain bin at the blower/dryer. Put the yard garden debris and the wildflowers debris removed from the bed along the wood fence/road. 4/6/2019 – We have pulled the wildflowers and weeds from the backyard beds and out them […]
Continue ReadingPlanted 8 hills of yellow squash and 8 of zucchini.
Continue Reading3/29/2019 – Applied 2 cups of 34-0-0 in our double 22 ft row based on table below extracted from here. Stage Number of Leaves Amount to Apply per Acre Total Applied for Season* Pre Plant 4 20 units 40 Roots Established (2 weeks after planting) 5 20 units 60 Slow Growth (every 2 weeks) 6-8 […]
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Borrowed Frank’s hiller and hilled 8 rows. Planted G90 corn in the south 50 ft of the east 4. Okra in 50 ft of the 5th and a little bell pepper in the 6th. The bell pepper seed did not feed well though the seeder-perhaps because there was very little seed. After lunch, planted the […]
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