Removed 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.
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Bought 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.
Continue ReadingFirst frost in pond field and on the roof
Low temperature was 34.9° with the dew point at 33.9°. The roof of the house was white with frost and the grass in around the pond had some frost. At day break could find no frost in the garden.
Continue ReadingSowed Soaked Tendergreen Mustard seeds
9/14/2020 – Hours before the wind and rain are to start from Hurricane Sally I sprinkled, 2019 Tendergreen mustard seed in 15 feet of the north end. The seed had been soaked at room temperature overnight. Then put onto a paper plate to dry some to be easier to sow. They were spread differently than […]
Continue ReadingSowed the Pre-sprouted 2019 Ruby Queen beet seed
9/5/2020 – Pre-sprouted the leftover Ruby Queen Beet seed in a half-pint mason jar. They took about 5 days to have nice 1/8″ long red sprouts. Some did not sprout so dropped them in a little thick. Sowed them in the row immediately east of the pumpkin row on the north end of the south […]
Continue ReadingSprayed Pumpkins and Squash with Spinosad
9/4/2020 – The small gnat-like flies and small dark eggs are back every morning despite the two malathion sprays and two Bug-No-More with Zeta-cypermethrin (sp?) sprayings. The eggs and problem with the leaves looks like the early stages of squash vine borer. Several places recommended Spinosad. Went to Hurley F&S and bought Ferti-lome’s Spinosad Soap […]
Continue ReadingSowed pre-sprouted spinach in the center of the fourth row from the fence
9/4/2020 – Sowed pre-sprouted spinach in the center of the fourth row from the fence–second row east of the pumpkins.
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