A farmer works in acres not hours.
10/26/2021 – Found a partially used 40-lb bag of Pendulum 2G in the grain bin in a heavy black trash bag. Used the cyclone seeder set at 2 to spread it in the area of the orchard and yard where we set up the volleyball net and where the Burweed is always bad. Using Google […]
Continue Reading10/26/2021 – The last spraying of WFZ worked well except for the missed spots. This spraying covered those locations. Note in that post the error found when working up the numbers below. That application was some less than the minimum per the label but it worked well to kill the Florida Betony and Spider Wort […]
Continue Reading10/23/2021 – Sowed Detroit Dark Red Beet seed from Hurley F&F in the row 58 ft. from the fence on the west side of the north half. This is the first sowing this year. Hopefully, we will produce our first-ever beets. The pre-planting steps taken below were extracted from several beet planting processes as recorded […]
Continue Reading10/20/2021 – Sowed Savanah Mustard, Natsuguru onions, and the few Cheers cabbage seeds remaining in the packet. The mustard was sowed in the gaps where it had not come up in the row near 47′ from the fence. This is the first attempt this year to grow green onions from seed in the big garden. […]
Continue Reading10/7/2021 – The soil has finally gotten dry enough to work and so pulled up rows with the hiller that had been pulled up weeks ago. They had been packed down and weeds were beginning to pop up. Sowed: Savanah Mustard Green Magic Broccoli Bok Choy Planted 1 lb. multiplying onions; i.e. about 15 feet […]
Continue Reading10/3/2021 – Sowed Elbon Rye in the south half of the garden as a cover crop as was done last year in the north half. The area is 1/6th acre including the turn rows. So, to sow at 100 lbs/ac. sowed 100/6 = 17 lbs. The process: Used the 6 ft, drag harrow to level […]
Continue Reading10/1/2021 – As the weather has begun to cool off, the Florida Betony missed in the spring spraying is coming back. Spider Wort continues to pop up and some had been spot sprayed with WFZ. This plan used info from April 19th’s spraying plan but used the Gator to carry the sprayer rather than pulling […]
Continue Reading9/17/2021 – Applied a final feeding of the grass of 15-0-15 plus Iron mixed with Extinguish to kill the ants. The first half of September has been a very wet month with 13″ of rain from Hurricane Ida and 5″ from TD Nicholas. This feeding is at the normal time but is even more important […]
Continue Reading9/21/2021 – The last side dressing of the corn with 8-8-8 helped some but it is still very yellow toned. Drug a shallow groove with the hoe on one side of each row. Dropped in 66-0-0 and raked in the loose soil to cover it.
Continue Reading9/21/2021 – To replace nutrients washed out by the more than 20″ of rain in August and September to date, spread about 30 lbs. of the time-release fertilizer bought today from Greenway (formerly AGRI-AFC. The amount was light on all beds but heavier around the roses. The idea is to replace the lost nutrients in […]
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