A farmer works in acres not hours.
We added beds with Frank’s hiller and planted one row of cantaloupes in the northwest corner, a row of sunflowers in Row 14 north end along with nasturtiums, and marigolds in several places.
Continue Reading4/30/2019 – The black spot has become worse on especially one of the Knock Outs in front to the Guest Room Window. But, I had sprayed it with Spectracide Systemic Fungicide last week. As the Rust is already looking like it is far less on the daylilies, Mary wanted to spray the roses with Mancozeb. […]
Continue Reading4/29/2019 – Side dressed the first plot of corn (G-90) with 34-0-0 at one pint per 100′ row as recommended by ACES. As recommended by Ted, we also side dressed with lime. Rather than two applications, I mixed the lime with the nitrogen. See Background below. ACES said to side dress with one pint per […]
Continue ReadingWhile spraying the daylilies for Rust with Mancozeb, I sprayed the bulb onions from Dixondale and the garlic from Filigree in Mary’s yard veggie plot. Later in the day Mary fertilized both with fish emulsion with Miracle Grow.
Continue Reading4/28/2019 – We realized the daylilies along the front of the house where the drip hoses operated daily had developed Rust–some more than others. The ones at the drip hose were the worst. Those we moved from there recently took the rust to the bed along the road/fence; but not too much. Hopefully, we found/learned […]
Continue Reading4/27 & 28/2019 – On the 27th Mary put Fish Emulsion on her yard garden–other than the onions and garlic–and on the 28th she put fish emulsion plus Miracle Grow on the bulb and bunching onions and garlic.
Continue Reading4/27/2019 – We bought an Encore Autumn Princess intermediate size azalea and planted it where we had planted the dwarf Encore Autumn Fire; i.e the SE corner bed in the front yard. Now the two Encores will be the same size. We planted the Autumn Fire in the backyard at the undeveloped gap between the […]
Continue ReadingMary planted Bonnie Big Boy Hybrid Tomatoes in the gaps in the tomato row; i.e row 14. She also planted Marigold, Zinnias, and Nasturtiums in various location. In her yard veggie garden, she weeded and I used the spade to turn over the central area. Then raked it level, chopped it with the 4-tine hoe […]
Continue Reading4/25/2019 – Bought these seeds at Grand Bay Feed and Seed to finish planting the vegetable garden. Texas Cream Peas – 1/2 lb. – “Highly nutritious. Fertilize at 1/2 rate used for other vegetables; too much nitrogen limits production. Good summer cover crop. Cowpea curculio is a common pest. Maintain consistent soil moisture.” From here. […]
Continue ReadingTo replace some of our tomato seedlings that are not surviving and the jalapenos that did not come up we bought Bonnie’s plants at Lowe’s. Tomatoes – Jalapenos – Sweet Banana Peppers –
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