A farmer works in acres not hours.
We pulled all the rest of the Texas 1015Y, Texas Early White, and Red Creole bulb onions as there were none that had not been at least to some extent wind damaged. We have about a dozen Texas Sweet and Texas early that are 2″ or larger and a lot of small ones. The red […]
Continue Reading5/23/2019 – Now, with the brick clean, I sprayed the gables, the soffits, and around the windows with Martin’s Permethrin SFR at 28 ml (1 oz.) in the 1.5-gallon pump-up sprayer. Cleaned the windows of the spray, dust, bugs, and bird crashes. Also sprayed inside the firewood shed.
Continue ReadingSprayed Daylilies for Rust and Roses for black spot and botrytis. The frequency of the Rust on the daylilies is much less than when we started spraying…but there is still some. The roses’ botrytis that was/is destroying blooms on the little pink roses at the gate and the hybrid teas at the Bay Tree bed […]
Continue Reading5/22/2019 – Driskell Cotton Farms finished planting peanuts in the field north of the house. There was a longer time than in the past between the cows leaving and this planting. They had a lot more grass than needed for the cows and so baled it–over 100 round bails. Then the field was subsoiled with […]
Continue Reading5/21 & 22/2019 – We used the floor sprayer on the carport and it looks a lot better. We used the wide white spray head on the brick. Mary washed the brick with the hose immediately before I hit it with the pressure washer. Then she rinsed it after I finished and before it dried […]
Continue Reading5/21/2019 – Aron brought a guy and large backhoe and cleaned out the ditch behind Peggy’s house where their feeder yearlings had played on the slopes and raised the flowline at least a foot. He also cleaned out both ends of their culvert and removed the old rusted out metal culvert at the barn.
Continue Reading5/21/2019 – The three rows of Silver King Corn looks pale and in need of nitrogen. Side dressed it with 34-0-0 + a little lime.
Continue ReadingThe little pink climbing roses on either side of the front gate bloomed heavy for weeks then all of a sudden most blooms turned blackish, shriveled and fell apart over the past 2 days. For the past 3-4 days, some of the blooms on the two white hybrid tea roses in the Bay Tree bed […]
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5/20/2019 – We started this morning about 7 AM and worked until 9:30 in the garden and accomplished the following: Enjoyed the first-ever squash and zucchini harvest of 2 large zucchini and four 6″ long yellow squash. In the photo below are three zucchini as I picked one yesterday. Thinned the cantaloupes to two plants […]
Continue ReadingLightly fertilized all Crepes with 15-0-15 other than the Sunset Magics. Also did the very young ones along the orchard side of the north-south 4-board fence and the ones at the grain bin. Per The Crape Myrtle Company, they should be fed with a light application of a balanced fertilizer every 2 weeks during the […]
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