A farmer works in acres not hours.
The Blood Orange tree that has never borne fruit was severely damaged by the 5-day cold street just before this past Christmas. We decided to replace it with a red grapefruit as several friends have had good crops this year of sweet, juicy red grapefruit. Varieties – http://www.fruittreesflorida.com/GRAPEFRUITTREES.html How to Plant – http://www.fruittreesflorida.com/CAREFORGRAPEFRUITTREE.html The Red […]
Continue Reading1/25/2023 – Over the past couple of weeks weeded the beds around the front yard and back patio. Today, weeded the beds along the front of the house and cut the knock-out roses back to about 3.5 feet. Also, cut back the two along the kitchen wall. Rounded the two floribunda roses on either side […]
Continue ReadingFrom HOSS Better Boy Tomato – 50 seeds $5.99 National Pickling Cucumber $3.99 Ordered 1/4/23 Cheers Cabbage × 1 $3.99 Green Magic Broccoli × 1 $3.99 Ordered 1/11/2023 From SESE Name Quantity Item Price Item Total Cajun Jewel Okra, 4g Item #69102 1 $3.25 $3.25 Cayenne, Carolina Hot Pepper, 0.3g Item #46521 1 $3.50 $3.50 Charleston Belle […]
Continue ReadingDecember 22-26, 2022 – A very intense winter storm brought a long cold spell up to and through Christmas Day. Date Low High 12/22/2022 21 52 12/23/2022 19 35 12/24/2022 21 47 12/25/2022 21 56 12/26/2022 23 62
Continue ReadingOrdered and now planted 6 more Earthbox Growing boxes and placed five along the east wall of the Greenhouse and one between the white table and the wooden plant stand against the west wall. Filled them with Miracle Grow potting soil. Planted: The plan is to move the first five that are producing well along […]
Continue Reading11/28/2022 from Harris Seeds Product image Description Quantity Price 1 Tomato Better Boy F1 Seed/Treated/50 Seeds 1 $5.56 1 Vinca Cora Cascade Shell Pink F1 Seed/100 Seeds 1 $11.43 1 Vinca Cora Cascade Mix F1 Seed/100 Seeds 1 $11.43 1 Zinnia Benary’s Giant Mix Seed/ 250 Seeds 1 $10.19 Show more Description Price My order […]
Continue Reading11/18/2022 – We have had several frosts but everything lived through them. Today it was 27 degrees at sunrise and a hard frost that killed the tomatoes, and squash in the garden as well as the periwinkles in the yard.
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To keep the feeder calves out of the new little pond, Driskell Cotton Farm built a 5-wire fence on the north and west side.
Continue Reading11/01/2022 – Spreader Pendulum 2G to prevent Burweed from germinating with the cyclone seeder set on 2. Spread it in the areas below. Roughly half the 40 lb. silver metallic bag was spread. The remaining half bag will be spread in early spring on spots in the yard to prevent crabgrass and other weed germination.
Continue ReadingPlanted daylilies in the bed next to Pond Gate, at the road west of the driveway, that were removed from the south side of the Martin House bed where Cogon Grass was growing from bird droppings. This bed was available as we removed the daylilies that had been placed there a couple of years ago […]
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