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8/29 to 8/30/2021 – Hurricane Ida made landfall in southeast Louisiana, west of New Orleans as a Category 4 storm doing tremendous damage by way of the 150 MPH wind and heavy rain. As it moved north the rain bands moved into Alabama and east Mississippi. The largest one came across us and traveled north […]
Continue Reading8/28/2021 – Sowed Oregon Giant Snow peas along the rail fence in Mary’s Garden with the HOSS seeder with Plate 5. Made two rows about 3-6″ apart with the inoculated seeds at 1¼ inches deep. Removed one screw from the lower 1×4-inch support for the fence fabric that had been removed and rotated it up […]
Continue Reading8/25/2021, 4 pm – Sowed Colter beans in: the shorten half row next to the full row of okra on the east edge of the north half. This morning the row was watered well so it would be moist for the seeds. This is the same row that has about 8 feet of cucumber seedlings. […]
Continue Reading8/25/2021 – Pulled the struggling Super Sweet 100 Tomatoes in Mary’s Garden that were growing on the fence. Their production has fallen—likely due to the heat—and a few are about to die. Pulled up the taller weeds and tilled it for Oregon Giant Snow Peas.
Continue Reading8/25/2021 – Sidedressed the Celebrity tomatoes, corn, and multiplying onions with 0-0-33. Scratched it in and weeded with pointed weeder.
Continue Reading8/23/2021 – On the south end of the half row of Betternut butternuts about six seedlings had put on the second set of leaves but then shrivel, turned yellow and curled up. They have died or are beyond recovery. The flea beetles have attacked them but no more so than the north end where the […]
Continue Reading8/22/2021 – Ordered from Johnny’s Seeds White Swan (F1) Marigold Seed $16.00 Size: 100 Seeds Dunja Organic (F1) Zucchini Squash Seed $4.90 Size: Packet
Continue Reading8/22/2021 – Some of the mature leaves of the satsuma, blood orange, and lemon tree along the driveway are beginning to curl and the leaf miner trails are on some leaves that are not curling. Sprayed them to drip with Spinosad.
Continue Reading8/22/2021 – Yesterday sprayed the squash with malathion to kill the flea beetles and this morning there were none. This afternoon they were back in full force and also on the MS Crowder peas. The peas now have tiny white spots making the leaves look pale. Sprayed both with malathion for an instant knockdown then, […]
Continue Reading8/22/2021 – The nine Celebrity tomatoes are doing well and most have flowers or buds. Today we: Early in the morning sprayed them with mancozeb as a preventative. They do not yet show any disease. Drop on then scratched in a wide “donut” about two handfuls of pecan firewood ash saved from last winter. Installed […]
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