A farmer works in acres not hours.
10/9/2020 – Buried a new wire from a new junction box to a grease-cup splice at the little oak tree near the northwest most pole of the barn. The original wire goes from a new grey junction box 2′ from the pole to a new junction box halfway to the deck. See the plan image […]
Continue Reading10/8/2020 – Sprayed the lemons and satsumas with Spinosad for the second time in this series to stop the leaf miners.
Continue Reading10/6/2020 – Bryan Woodham called and said a plane would spread ryegrass seed over the cotton field this afternoon–no chemicals. The plane was fun to watch as usual. I passed the news on to our neighbors.
Continue Reading10/5/2020 – Used the hiller to build rows 5A & 5B where the pumpkins had been. The soil had been thoroughly disked so raced up an pulled up the rows….again forgetting to put the fertilizer down before hilling. Will have to fertilize differently and let it be an experiment. See below for how it was […]
Continue Reading10/3 & 4/2020 – We hung a 14′ gate–that was at the north end of the now 4-board fence along the orchard–at the entry from the old garden (aka Ranger’s field) to the lane. That frees up the two panels that were heavy and had to be lifted to pass through. Moved those two panels […]
Continue Reading10/4/2020 – With Fergie, bush hogged the weeds between the ditch and the electric fence and the ditch. In the afternoon, bush hogged the high weeds near the wood fence in the burn pile field. Also bush hogged the high bahia grass in the lane between the burn pile field and the pond yard.
Continue Reading10/1/2020 – Using the new Taylor soil thermometer the soil temps 2″ down in the big garden was 88° (soil that had been in the shade for about 30 minutes) to 92° for the nearby soil that was still in the sun and had been for 5+ hours on this almost cloudless day with the […]
Continue Reading10/1/2020 – Using the April 22, 2019 application as a guide, but wanting to not fertilize as heavy this late in the fall, we decided to spread 100 lbs. of 15-0-15 (2/3rds of that application) while putting in 2 lbs of Extinguish. Therefore, mix 1 lb. of Extinguish in each 50 lb sack of fertilizer […]
Continue Reading9/29/2020 – Took pH readings with the Kelsey meter in the following locations. Target pH for St. Augustine Grass is 6.0 – 6.5. Location Reading Action Front yard – Grass grows well. Make half of the full 1 point adjustment and retest. >½ pt NW Corner 5.5 SW Corner 5.2 NE Corner 5.0 SE Corner […]
Continue ReadingDate Readings Ideal 9/20/2020 N-W-S-E, ~6? from the trunk 5.4 – 5.4 – 5.7 – 4.8 6.1 – 6.5 9/29/2020 N-W-S-E, ~9′ from the trunk 5.3 – 5.4 – 5.4 – 5.6 6.1 – 6.5 Area under Drip Line: 25′ diameter + 10 = 35′ = 18′ radius ~ 1000 SF Sandy Loam soil will […]
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