A farmer works in acres not hours.
Bought at Blair’s a 3 gallon Flordaking (aka Florida King) Peach and a 3-gallon Pineapple Pear. They were $30 each and were grown at Bracy’s Nursery, LLC, Amite, LA 70422. The Pear is to grow 15′ high and 10′ wide. The peach is to grow to 25′ high and 25′ wide.
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Harvested: spinach, mesclun (mixed lettuces); mustard greens and the first brocolli.
Continue ReadingSometime in February Tom fed the roses with Miracle Grow.
Continue Reading2/15/2019 – Sprayed 2.5 T per gallon of Monterey Horticultural Oil on the following: Mary’s large garden in the areas of holes in the leafs Bay Tree and roses in that bed that are beginning to sprout New camellias along the fence next to the pecan orchard new encore azalea at the gate new camellia […]
Continue Reading2/14/2019 – On this Valentines Day Mary was still sick that came on at the end of the trip to Houston. I planted the following. Moved the crepe myrtle growing at the northwest corner of the house to the south center of the grain bin. This crepe was one from the large white one in […]
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Everything is getting larger and some is almost ready to begin harvesting for dinner. In the bottom right of the photo are multiplying onions. The two rows of shoots going up the lower right side are garlic and then bulb onions. The large green leaves next to the onions are mustard greens. To the left […]
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This post was originally a Page for the Grandkids. They can now see all the posts we think they will enjoy most by clicking the “Grandkids” tag. December 2018 to spring 2019 – Every morning Grandma fills her bucket with a special horse feed for older horses and mules and feeds these two old folks; […]
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Mary harvested mustard and swish chard to take to Houston for Piper’s 7th birthday.
Continue ReadingExtended the flower bed in the backyard (now a veggie garden) under the electrical panel and meter, to the north to cover the pump houses. Bought 1 scoop of crushed pine bark mulch and mulched: the wider beds either side of the driveway outside the fence where the climbing roses are and the new roses […]
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2-3-2019 – The garlic and bulb onions are coming up and everything else is getting bigger.
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