A farmer works in acres not hours.
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 Reading4/20/2021 – 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 ReadingSawed 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 Reading2/3/2021 – Bought Frontier’s single bottom mold-board plow at Sun South. Category: Moldboard Plows Manufacturer: Frontier Model: PB1001 Year: 2020
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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 Reading1/19/2021 – 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 Reading11/4/2020 – 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 ReadingLow 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 Reading9/14/2020 – 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 Reading9/5/2020 – 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 […]
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