A farmer works in acres not hours.
5/22/2023 – Came across the video here where the guy did what made sense with the pepper plants. He fed them every two weeks with superbloom and fish emulsion that we know works in the yard with many bloomers. Ours are ok but not dark green and not growing or putting on many blooms. Mixed […]
Continue Reading5/22/2023 – The corn that blew over last week is standing up and the shorter stalks are knee high. Sidedressed with 33-0-0 in a slot made by the hoe. Then pulled the soil back over the slot. On the 10 rows (600 ft) spread about 5 gallons of nitrogen. All in less than an hour.
Continue Reading5/21/2022 – Rain for the past 5 days is sure to make the small spots of blight spots multiply so sprayed the tomatoes with Mancozeb mixed at 1 oz./gallon. This was the first spraying this year.
Continue Reading5/20/2023 – This will be the first fungicide treatment for daylily rust and rose fungus and uses a combination spray of a contact and a systemic product. Our 2021 and 2020 post here has a lot of great info and was the guide for this treatment using Propiconazole 14.3 (the systemic) and Daconil (the contact […]
Continue Reading5/16/2023 – The pond level is almost down to the PVC fill pipe and the floating weeds are exposed more than usual. Sprayed Shoreclear with the special non-ionic surfactant on the land side weeds and the floating vine-like narrow leaf weeds that extend out to 5 feet or so. Mixed the Shoreclear in the backpack […]
Continue Reading5/16/2023 – We found Fruit Worms in several tomatoes and something is eating the leaves of the store-bought broccoli. Sprayed both and all the cucumber and squash seedlings with Spinosad at 2 oz. per gallon plus surfactant. Did not spray the peppers as I forgot. Don’t know why and may need to go back.
Continue Reading5/14/2023 – As the hill/row immediately east of the PEPH peas in the south half is still empty and we have a lot of zinnia, marigold, and sunflower seeds that are 2021-2023 that are not growing in the packets, they were scattered in the wide hill that was loosen with the stirrup hoe, then raked […]
Continue Reading5/11/2023 – Relocated the following.
Continue Reading5/10/2023 – One of the four blueberries saved from the original blueberries Mom and Dad planted has not done well and was too close to the north side rail fence (along the ditch) to mow with Fergie. Pulled it up and now can mow up to the fence.
Continue Reading5/10/2023 – Dug up clumps of volunteer Vinca Periwinkles from the Red Bud Tree bed and transplanted them in the locations listed.
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