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3/5/2021 – For the past week we have worked on weeding the beds with daylilies east of the driveway. Today we fed the daylilies the Hooker formula minus the Epsom Salts. We left out the Epsom Salts and again soil tests show the soil has Very High Magnesium levels. We put a cup of Miracle […]
Continue Reading3/5/2021 This plan is based on the January 11, 2021 soil test report here. Parameters of the Ashville Pelletized lime to be spread: Relative Neutralizing Value (RNV) – 92% Effective Calcium Carbonate Equivalent (ECCE) – 90% The following formula is from Table 3 of Interpreting Soil Test Reports from Commercial Labs: Adjusted lime recommendation (tons/acre) […]
Continue Reading02/??/2021 https://www.hawkslandscape.com/redbud-pruning-winter-care-and-fertilizing/ Protect young trunk from rabbits eating them Fertilize in holes at tree line with 10-10-10 once per year or Miracle Grow as normally done but 3-4 times per year starting in late April and ending in July.
Continue Reading3/4/2021 – The Jacks Citrus FeED 20-10-20 by JR Peters arrived today. Mixed it per the instructions at 1 tbsp per gallon; i.e. 2 tbsp in the 2-gallon watering cans. Poured one can—2 gallons—on each of the lemon, satsuma trees, and the blood orange tree; including the one at the garden. The Meyer lemon was […]
Continue Reading3/3/2021 – Fertilized lightly with 8-8-8+sulfur the citrus trees in the yard and the satsuma next to the garden.
Continue Reading3/3/2021 – Sprinkled 1 cup of 8-8-8 with sulfur around the edge of the root ball of the three magnolias planted last year around the pond. That recommendation is by the Georgia Extension Service’s Growing Southern Magnolias for our Bracken’s Brown Beauties.
Continue Reading3/3/2021 – Spread with the cyclone seeder 2.3 lbs/1000 SF of 0-0-60 on the garden per the soil test report.
Continue Reading3/2/2021 – The tomato and pepper seedlings from seeds sown 1/24/2021 (five weeks ago) in the 6-packs have germinated well and have their second permanent leaves. We teased out one seedling from its neighbor of two each of the three tomato varieties and replanted them for Kelley into saved Bonnie’s 3″ plastic pots. The sharp […]
Continue Reading2/25/2021 – Yesterday and this morning we weeded the daylily beds west of the driveway and fed them the “concoction”. The beds were: the newest bed we call the Nursury at the Martin House; the round Lady Bed in the center of the fruit tree grove and; the bed immediately east of the pond-field gate […]
Continue Reading2/25/2021 – Pulled up freeze damaged Hamlin Oranges in Garden. Harvested the last of the Cheers and New Jersey Wakefield cabbage. The Cheers could have grown larger if there was a couple of weeks to do so. The NJW only had a few small heads that were not filled out well. There was still a […]
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