A farmer works in acres not hours.
3/29/2019 – Applied 2 cups of 34-0-0 in our double 22 ft row based on table below extracted from here. Stage Number of Leaves Amount to Apply per Acre Total Applied for Season* Pre Plant 4 20 units 40 Roots Established (2 weeks after planting) 5 20 units 60 Slow Growth (every 2 weeks) 6-8 […]
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Borrowed Frank’s hiller and hilled 8 rows. Planted G90 corn in the south 50 ft of the east 4. Okra in 50 ft of the 5th and a little bell pepper in the 6th. The bell pepper seed did not feed well though the seeder-perhaps because there was very little seed. After lunch, planted the […]
Continue Reading3/27/2019 – Bought a Brown Select Satsuma and two “Julia Child” gold floribunda roses at Sessions. The Julia Child rose, known in the UK as the Absolutely Fabulous rose, is a golden butter or golden floribunda rose, named after the chef Julia Child. WikipediaScientific name: Rosa ‘Julia Child’ Higher classification: RoseCultivar: ‘WEKvossutono’. Origin: Tom Carruth; (United States, […]
Continue ReadingAbout 3/27/2019 – Tom fed the three purple crepes a blend of Miracle Grow and fish emulsion.
Continue ReadingSpread by hand 13-13-13 on the blooming blueberries at the rate of two handfulls for the small ones and 4-6 for the larger. Had about a quart left in the bucket so threw in around the backside of the oak and thinly around the sides.
Continue ReadingThe last rain was on 3/4/2019 and was the fourth day in a row where we had about 0.25″ each day. That was a small amount of rain after a week of dry winds. Since then the humidity has been low and the wind blowing out of the north or south. So, the flower beds […]
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1/21/2019 – Ted Strange helped install two replacement poles for those that had rotted and two additional poles for the future inside shop wall. The rotted poles where the southeast corner and the one immediately north of that one. When I pried those poles from the beam they fell over. There was hardly any large […]
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We had pulled the brussel sprouts–that never produced–and the broccoli plants that produced great as well as some of the multiplying onions that bolted. Those areas were then “tilled” deep with the TroyBuilt Cultivator.
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3/18/2019 – We bought at Blair’s a second Autumn Sunburst Encore Azalea for the west side of the gate to balance the one on the east side. It cost $30. I stopped at Sessions Farm Market after lunch and they were unloading four pallets of hibiscus. I bought two 3-gallon Painted Ladies and two 3-gallon […]
Continue ReadingSprayed to kill weeds at: the fences; around the trees in the barn yard, and around the pecan trees in the orchard and yard.
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