Yellow Squash Harvest has begun
5/8/2020 – The Gold Star (F1) yellow squash has grown well with no disease or bug damage so far. There are many blooms and bees that today yielded three squash.
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Pond Water Quality Test Results
5/8/2020 – Below water quality values obtained using HACH’s AquaChek test strip. Total Hardness – 1.5 Total Alkalinity – 0 pH – 6.2
Continue ReadingSidedressed 1st Corn 2nd time, Cantaloupes and Cucumbers
5/8/2020 – The 1st corn, G-90, is tasselling and silking so side dressed it with 33-0-0 with a handful of lime in about 2 gallons of fertilizer. Spread about 4 gallons on both sides of the five 60′ rows. Then rake it in. The cantaloupes and cucumbers are vining so side dressed them with the […]
Continue ReadingZucchini Harvest Has Begun
5/7/2020 – The Dunja zucchini has grown quickly and with little disease or bug damage. We have had nights in the 50’s so that has to help suppress those issues. This was the first day we picked more than one of the zucchini.
Continue ReadingDriskells Bailing Hay and Cleaning Up
Brian Woodham/Driskell Cotton Farm and his son Jimmy, finished bailing hay (grass the cows did not eat) and hauling it away. He was happy with the 71 bales. The yearlings had gained about 300 lbs each. They will be on their way to Nebraska next week. His crew hauled out old troughs, the water tank […]
Continue ReadingSprayed Copper Fungicide on: Squash, Cucumbers, Cantaloupes, and Tomatoes
5/5/2020 – When watering and weeding this morning we found black spots on the 1st PEPH peas (Alternaria leaf blight) and white/tan spots and decayed areas on the yellow squash and a few on the Zucchini. Sprayed 1.5 gallons on them with the last of the Bonide and a little Southern Ag Copper based fungicide […]
Continue ReadingRe-sowed Kentucky Wonder Bush Beans
5/3/2020 – The three rows of KWB in the south half planted on 3/27/2020 must have been planted too early and the weather was too cool as the germination was very poor. In addition, they were sown with the red plastic planter that never sowed evenly and has now been replaced with the HOSS planter. […]
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Extended Daylily Bed across Old Fence and made Rose Bed at New Corner
5/1/2020 – Used the JD tiller to prepare the soil in the space that was the pond-side of the yard-pond fence at the road where the new rail fence extends into what was the double-wide gate. The bed had been a large curved bed in the corner of the rail fence and the pond fence. […]
Continue ReadingPond Water Quality Test Results
5/30/2020 – Below water quality values obtained using HACH’s AquaChek test strip. At 7:00 AM Total Hardness – 1.5 Total Alkalinity – 0 pH – 6.2 At 12 Noon Total Hardness – 1.5 Total Alkalinity – 0 pH – 6.8
Continue ReadingMagnolia Frescati Drenched for Aphids 2nd time
5/1/2020 – Prepared 12 oz. of Compare and Save’s Imidacloprid 1.47% split between three 2-gallon watering cans of water. Poured each on 1/3rd of the 5-ft wide circular space around the Frescati.
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