A farmer works in acres not hours.
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.
Continue ReadingThe wildflowers we sowed last fall between the crepe myrtles and daylilies seemed to be largely crimson clover and the grasses came on strong. Today we gathered the grass seed heads although some had already dropped their seeds. Put all the heads in the garbage. We have finally given up and so cut the clover, […]
Continue ReadingAlmost 50% of the multiplying onions are bolting, and the broccoli is done for. The mixed Mesculun lettuce has some damaged by the cold last week, some leaves are too large and some are too small. Based on info found at several web sites, the bolting is due to the very cold nights last week […]
Continue Reading3/12/2018 – Mary, Piper, and Olivia planted marigold seedlings in the new camellia beds where the original seedlings were bitten by the two cold nights last week.
Continue Reading3/12/2019 – The soil test says it needs 120#-0-120# per acre. As the garden is about 1/3 acre it needs 40#-0-40#. So, a 15-0-15 fertilizer means: 15% of 50 lbs is 7.5# per bag. So, 40/7.5=6 bags. Bought six 50 lb. bags of 15-0-15 plus iron at Agri Afc on Dawes Rd. Spread five bags […]
Continue ReadingMary feed the roses, daylilies, and hydrangeas with fish emulsion.
Continue Reading3/9/2019 – Paul Farill built the fence along the north and west side of the new garden space just east of the pecan orchard. The existing heavy “bull wire” fence, adjacent to the pecan trees, was removed and the posts and mesh used in the new fence. The garden is now part of the orchard. […]
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