A farmer works in acres not hours.
5/29/2019 – Side dressed the cucumbers with 34-0-0. They have many blooms, one 6″ cuke we picked, and some other smaller cukes. Mary side dressed the peppers with Miracle Grow as it poured through the hay mulch. First picking of the Kentucky Wonder Bush Beans yielded enough for a meal for us with leftovers and […]
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05/25/2019 – The Cosmos wildflowers are going to seed and we will continue to gather them and others. We are especially targetting poppy seeds and of those, the ones with the complex blooms.
Continue Reading5/28/2019 – Mary pulled the last of the bulb onions and the multiplying onions that had been cut off. I tilled those areas with the TroyBilt cultivator. She planted two rows of Chard along the east edge. The next morning she planted on the north end the basil plants we had raised from seed. She […]
Continue Reading5/28/2019 – First time to apply Bonide Copper Fungicide to the Tomatoes, Peppers, & Squash at the 2 oz. per gallon dosage per the label. This was a preventative application. Repeat in 10 days.
Continue Reading5/27/2019 – Built a wire-on-T-Posts support structure for the indeterminate tomatoes in Row 18. The posts are 6-8 feet apart and the wire is some high-tensile wire Dad used with his electric fence. Used a green cotton garden twine to wrap the main vines. Tied a loop in the top and made a slip note […]
Continue Reading5/18/2019 – Used Fergie and the 5′ bush hog to mow the tall weeds and dead rye grass in the Pond Field, the old garden, and the burn pile field. Fergie died as I pulled into the driveway from mowing the pond field. After adding more diesel–that it may be needed–it still did not crank. […]
Continue Reading5/25/2019 – Susan Knippenberg had visited Africa and brought back some okra seed where the pod is stripped. She had planted it in her yard in Atlanta and brought Frank some pods to plant the seeds. He gave us one pod and today when Peggy asked if any had come up I replied no…as I […]
Continue Reading5/25/2019 – Found them and sprayed with Sevin about 7 AM. At 10:00 I could not find any.
Continue Reading5/24/2019 – Bush hogged the weeds in the strip on the north side of the ditch and the newly planted peanut field from the crossing to Peggy’s pecan trees. There were a lot of nettles getting ready to bloom.
Continue ReadingThe fertilizer used in this first spring garden was as follows. Broadcast before anything planted – 15-0-15 with 2% iron by AGRI-AFC LLC on Dawes Rd. Side dressing – 33-0-0 Nitrogen with Sulfur plus Lime Total Nitrogen ………………………………33% 10.50% Ammoniacal Nitrogen 22.50% Urea Nitrogen Sulfur (Combined as S) …………… 12% Derived from Urea, Ammonium Sulfate […]
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