1st Cabbage; Picked with Piper & Olivia
3/11/2020 – We have pulled a couple of cabbage heads but today we picked 9 with the help of Piper and Olivia. There is still a lot that has not become firm like the ones we picked.
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Sowed G90 Corn & New Fertilizer Application
3/10/2020 – Disked the whole garden again this time with the drag. Drove back and forth along the west side to mark 6 rows with the tires. Fertilized, hilled them, and busted the hill to plant in the bottom of the trough. The concept at IFAS is to fertilize the plants, not the soil. Piper […]
Continue ReadingFence Replacements
3/7/2020 – Today Paul Ferril began demo of the fence along the road at the garden to install a 4-board rail fence like in the pecan orchard. By the next day he had also demo’ed the fence at the pond.
Continue ReadingDisked/Plowed Elbon Rye
3/8/2020 – In the early morning, disked the south half of the garden where the elbon rye has grown well. A surprising amount of sod and the soil clumped up a lot after disking it twice. It is perhaps a bit damp. In the afternoon, plowed the north and south half other than the center […]
Continue ReadingSoil temp in the Big Garden was 69 F & Pond Water was 62 F
3/4/2020 – Three readings were taken at 8:30 AM in the north end that has been disked but not plowed. All three were 69 F, 3″ down. The past three days have been in the high 60s to low 70s leading up to the rain today. The low last night was 69 F. Note the […]
Continue ReadingFed Cottonseed Meal to the Roses, Azaleas, and Camellias
3/4/2020 – Tom spread by handfuls 50 lbs of cottonseed meal on: all roses inside the fence but missed the ones outside at the gate; all camellias; all small azaleas. The small plants got 3-4 big handfuls and the larger Knockout roses got 6-8 handfuls. The meal was some that Peg and Frank got from […]
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Sowed Bermuda and Centipede Seed around the Pond
3/3/2020 – After Wayne Maples finished the final grading of the pond area this morning we bought two 25 lb bags of Pennington Terra Verde bermuda grass mix and 5 lbs of TifBlair Centipede seed at Hurley Farm & Feed. The day before the soil temperature was 61-63 F, at the end of the fully […]
Continue ReadingPecan Tree 21 Struck by Lightning
2/1/2020 – Sometime during early February tree no. 21 was struck by lightning. Bark littered the ground around it and a gash is visible. Tree 21 is west of the rail fence and immediately north of the 4-foot gate.
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Harvested Winter Garden
2/29/2020, Leap Day – To further prepare for the spring garden today we harvested the: remaining few spinach and lettuce leaves the remaining small broccoli heads the remaining Icicle radish the remaining Daikon Radish and the carrots. The surprise was the carrots. The leaf tops never got more than 6″ tall and were not filled […]
Continue ReadingBegan Feeding Fingerlings in mid-Morning & mid-Afternoon
2/29/2020 – Based on the advice at American Sportfish Hatchery, we began feeding the Coppernose Bluegill and Fathead Minnows in mid-afternoon when the water is warmer. Also, waited until mid-morning to let it begin to warm up. Up to this date, we have feed early AM and near sundown. But, have not been seeing them […]
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