A farmer works in acres not hours.
10/3 & 4/2020 – We hung a 14′ gate–that was at the north end of the now 4-board fence along the orchard–at the entry from the old garden (aka Ranger’s field) to the lane. That frees up the two panels that were heavy and had to be lifted to pass through. Moved those two panels […]
Continue Reading10/4/2020 – With Fergie, bush hogged the weeds between the ditch and the electric fence and the ditch. In the afternoon, bush hogged the high weeds near the wood fence in the burn pile field. Also bush hogged the high bahia grass in the lane between the burn pile field and the pond yard.
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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 Reading3/20/2020 – Before the wind started, mixed 6 gallons of Weed Free Zone and sprayed: one pass near Ranger’s hay bale where the burweed was thick and some lived. one pass along the temporary fence on the barn side from the barn to the blueberries; the weedy grass strip on the pond side of the […]
Continue Reading3/7/2020 – Today Paul Ferril began demo of the fence along the road at the garden to install a 4-board rail fence like in the pecan orchard. By the next day he had also demo’ed the fence at the pond.
Continue Reading1/17/2020 – Wayne Maples hauled in two 10 CY loads of sandy red clay from the pond he is digging for a neighbor. One load was dumped in the low place in the lane under the old oaks on the east property line. The second was dumped in and next to the long deep hole […]
Continue Reading12/12/2019 – Alabama Power Company’s contractor trimmed small limbs from the pecan trees along the power service from the road over the fence along the east side of the front yard. Only small limbs were removed that would one day have grown up into the service drop to our house.
Continue Reading11/18/2019 – Used Fergie to pull the old 10-ft gate to drag down the many horse piles in the old garden. Mary used the JD lawn tractor to mow the briars. She was very happy with how it looked.
Continue Reading10/22/2019 – After talking for too many years about the need to get started killing tallow trees and vines in the Springs we finally went there this afternoon on the Gator and killed tallow trees with Remedy+diesel in the Point–my new name for the NE corner of the Creek Field–around to the old fallen oak. […]
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Over the past two days and nights, Ted and Justice mowed the two fields that had too many Dog Fennels and Tallow trees. Based on what I read here, mowing Dog Fennel just before blooming will kill it and it not come back as bad next year. In a forum posts here, a couple of […]
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