A farmer works in acres not hours.
7/2/2019 – Many sicklepod plants have come up in the dirt area where the hay string was pulled out and Bahia grass seed spread. Sprayed them with 2,4-D as well as the Fireweed/HeartLeaf Nettle that is also coming up. [7/8/2019 – No sign of an impact on the nettle. Linked IFAS article says 2,4-D is […]
Continue Reading5/24/2019 – Bush hogged the weeds in the strip on the north side of the ditch and the newly planted peanut field from the crossing to Peggy’s pecan trees. There were a lot of nettles getting ready to bloom.
Continue Reading5/21 & 22/2019 – We used the floor sprayer on the carport and it looks a lot better. We used the wide white spray head on the brick. Mary washed the brick with the hose immediately before I hit it with the pressure washer. Then she rinsed it after I finished and before it dried […]
Continue Reading5/21/2019 – Aron brought a guy and large backhoe and cleaned out the ditch behind Peggy’s house where their feeder yearlings had played on the slopes and raised the flowline at least a foot. He also cleaned out both ends of their culvert and removed the old rusted out metal culvert at the barn.
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5/18/2019 – For the past 3 months we have worked to remove the 20+ years of hay string in the area of the old garden immediately north of the new garden. Of course, the removal of the string will never end but we got the worst of it and what is left that we can […]
Continue ReadingSprayed to kill weeds at: the fences; around the trees in the barn yard, and around the pecan trees in the orchard and yard.
Continue ReadingFinally, got the pressure washer to run well enough to clean the concrete walkway to the front door and the carport concrete apron. We had also bought a Briggs and Straton surface cleaner that made the work a lot easier and completed without strips.
Continue Reading1/6/2019 – Lowered the martin gourds pole and moved the arms down to good wood so the one that has been hanging crocked for 23+ years is now level. Cut off the rotten top of the pole and install a new plastic “gourd” where one was missing. Dug down on the west side of the […]
Continue Reading12/29/2018 – Justin and Ted have been mowing the north pastures with a John Deere with a high cab that had trouble getting down the lane with all the limbs hanging over. Today, Justin was cutting the limbs with a pole saw and I joined him. We cut it clean between the fences and high […]
Continue ReadingAs the augers were hauled away and that area cleaned up we could finally rearrange equipment, get rid of stuff and create more order. On this Halloween day, we made a lot of progress. Used Fergie and the boom to move the platform Frank built for Dad (for the back door wheelchair ramp) from the […]
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