Bought Lime & Slow Release Fertilizer
9/21/2021 – Bought at Greenpoint AG 3 40-lb sacks of pelletized lime and one 50-lb. sack of 58% 13-6-6 Slow Release Premium fertilizer.
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Installed a Fire Pit on Back Patio
9/8/2021 – Installed a fire pit made of Tremron wall block that matches the patio pavers and a fire ring with 1/2 cooking grate.
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Hung 2nd Shade Cloth in the Greenhouse
8/16/2021 – We hung the 2nd sunshade on the north end of the greenhouse to hopefully lower the temperature. As we could not get the silver one like is on the south end we got a 65% Ultra Tan Shade Cloth – 7′ x 12′ from The Shade Cloth Store The first shade cloth, on […]
Continue ReadingSprayed 2,4-D On Sicklepod at the Ditch & Springs
8/5/2021 – Sprayed 2,4-D mixed 1 oz./gallon using the pull-behind sprayer mounted in the Gator to spray: The sicklepod, nettles and grassy weeds between the peanuts and the ditch north of the barn over to the property line; Sicklepod along the edge of the field on the south side of the springs from the west […]
Continue ReadingSowed Lettuce & Corriander in Mary’s Garden
4/20/2021 – The Tehama lettuce was bolting and tough and a few weeds were coming in the empty spaces. Pulled out the weeds with the wobble hoe and Mary sowed Parris Island, Buttercrunch, and Salad Bowl Lettuce. She also sowed Leisure Coriander seeds we ordered from HOSS.
Continue ReadingRemoved Limbs Dead from Crown Rot from an Azalea
Sawed dead limbs from the Azalea on the east side of the path to the barn. Sprayed well with Mancozeb. This is a continuation of the issues first treated here.
Continue ReadingBought One-Bottom Plow at Sun South
2/3/2021 – Bought Frontier’s single bottom mold-board plow at Sun South.
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Built the Greenhouse
1/23/2021 – For the last two weekends and the week between we spent any hours when it was not too cold and windy or raining assembling a ClimaPod Virtue greenhouse. Today we buckled in the last 6 mm thermoplastic panel and all that is left is some cross-bracing, the louver in the back/north wall, and […]
Continue ReadingSpread Wood Ash Around Oleanders
1/19/2021 – Mary scoped out 5 gallons of pecan wood ash from the fireplace and we spread it around the four oleanders in the NE and NW corners of the pond yard. The soil test report this month showed the soil’s pH is 4.9, very acidic, and they like an alkaline soil although can live […]
Continue ReadingSidedressed Chinese Cabbage and Chard
11/4/2020 – Sidedressed Chinese cabbage planted Aug 16 but should have done so 4 weeks after sowing seed per Mississippi State Extension Service here. Two days ago Mary harvested what little Luculius Chard had come up. Sidedressed it with 33-0-0.
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