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10/20/2020 – For our 25th Anniversary present for each other we bought three 35-gallon Bracken’s Brown Beauty Magnolias from Oak Hill Tree Farm. 10/21/2020 – Used Frank’s post hole auger to start the holes for the two on the south side of the pond. Made the hole 6″+ larger than the 35-gallon pot. Mary cut […]
Continue Reading10/9/2020 – Buried a new wire from a new junction box to a grease-cup splice at the little oak tree near the northwest most pole of the barn. The original wire goes from a new grey junction box 2′ from the pole to a new junction box halfway to the deck. See the plan image […]
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.
Continue Reading7/15/2020 – The change to only early morning feeding is that when they were fed in the PM there was not much activity and then little in the AM. When fed only in the AM they really hit the feed and seem to eat all of the 4 handfuls thrown into a large space around […]
Continue Reading7/25/2020, 7:30 AM pH – 3.2 Alkalinity – 0-40 ppm. Color is between the 0 and the 40 colors. Total Hardness – 25 ppm This morning we bought the API GH & KH Test kit that can provide an alkalinity reading of 17.6 ppm that is better than the test strip of either 0 or […]
Continue Reading7/18/2020 – Used the Stihl hedge trimmer to: Top the three taller bushes; one at the south end of the row and the two north-most bushes. Trimmed the too-tall shoots on all the others in the row The two original blueberry bushes next to the row of original azaleas–and the driveway to the barnyard–were cut […]
Continue ReadingDate HardnessGrains/Gallon pH Alkalinity 5/21/2020 1.5 6.2 0 5/23/2020 3 6.2 0 5/31/2020, 7:30 AM 1.5 6.8 0 5/31/2020, noon 1.5 6.2 0 6/1-7/2020 Added 150# Lime 6/2/2020 1.5 6.2 0 6/24/2020 3 6.2 ~10-20
Continue Reading6/7/2020 – Tropical Storm Christobal’s winds have begun and cycling from the north to from the east. Threw in 50 more pounds of lime (total now 150 lbs) from the east-side midpoint, around the northern perimeter to the west side midpoint. Throwing hard and high allow the wind to carry the pellets to near the […]
Continue Reading6/3/2020 – This was the 2nd application now totaling 100 of the 200 lbs the pond needs. See here for the first application. Threw about 30 lbs. of pelletized lime on the pond from the mid-point on the east side to the mid-point on the west side going around the north perimeter. The last maybe […]
Continue Reading6/1/2020 – Based on the advice below, began adding pellitized lime to the pond to raise the alkalinity and the pH. Spread 50 lbs: all the way around using the cyclone seeder that threw it out maybe 10 feet. Some landed on the bank and that will be good for it. threw about 30 lbs […]
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