A farmer works in acres not hours.
This long holiday weekend began on an almost cool Wednesday afternoon, May 24, 2017. Thursday and Friday was also cool but warming up. By Friday afternoon: Mary weeded the front beds while Tom installed the new mower deck belt and ignition switch on the JD Lawn Tractor, greased the blade arbor shafts and adjusted the mower […]
Continue ReadingThis was a short work session of only three days so we concentrated on getting the yard in good shape to begin the summer.
Continue ReadingAllium Gardening It’s Time for Alliums Contributed by The Old Farmer’s Almanac Staff. Extracted from TSC’s web site on 3/25/17. As the days grow longer, the time draws near to get the alliums going! What is an allium? Alliums are more familiarly known as onions and include garlic, leeks, and chives as well as numerous […]
Continue ReadingMeyer Lemon http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/49905/ http://floridata.com/Plants/Rutaceae/Citrus%20meyeri/1067 River Birch http://homeguides.sfgate.com/river-birch-tree-43016.html Trees for the Eastern Shore Go to the pdf file here. Dogwood Trees Planting Dogwood Care Bare root and burlap dogwood trees should be transplanted in late fall or early spring. Container grown trees can be transplanted any time of the year, provided they are watered regularly after […]
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Continue ReadingDriskells have planted grass in the cotton stubble and the field is green. Mobile Gas has buried the exposed yellow gas line at the driveway into the pond field. Orange locate paint and flags locating the ATT buried cable were still in place along the fence about 12-18″ toward to pavement. Roses are blooming still […]
Continue Reading11/26/2016 – Driskell’s crew arrived to finishing picking the cotton that had been started. Amazing machine that would finish one roll and carry it on the back like a spider with a large egg pouch. Then “lay” it at the end of the rows.
Continue ReadingVery white field of cotton, a new well and cutting down all the Chinese tallow in the little pond are the high lites of this holiday. Wednesday, 11/23/16 – Moved the lumber from the grain bin to pole barn and added what we hauled in. Rearranged the grain bin and added two 4×8 sheets of […]
Continue ReadingDad’s shallow well pump finally quit and we have also had trouble with it loosing prime due to decay in the well tip and screen. Rather than replace it, and still have only the low capacity shallow well, we hired Edwin Williams/Bay Water Well to install a 4″ casing with a submersible 25 GPM pump. […]
Continue ReadingVery pleased that the Chinese Tallow trees across the small pond and the large pond are almost all dead. Only a little green in the tops. Friday, 9/2/16, afternoon weeded beds and began yard work. There are a lot of high weeds in the ditch and in all the places we sprayed. Disappointing as many […]
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