A farmer works in acres not hours.
12/31/2019 – Several weeks ago Mary cut back some of the daylily clumps that had rust and yellow/brown leaves. The cut removed all leaves about 2″ above the ground. They are already putting up new shoots and looking healthy. Will need to watch to see how they do with the cold days. So far, the […]
Continue Reading12/31/2019 – While cutting back daylilies for Rust the extensive weed growth in the beds was clear and would be hours pulling it all out. Determined the one with the deep white roots that cause it to come back quickly is Florida Betony. Mary used the 4-pronged “claw” and pulled up the ones in the […]
Continue Reading12/16/2019 – Sidedressed with 15-0-15 plus some borax: the 2nd 6″-8″ high mustard in the north end of rows 3 and 4; the 6″ high cabbage in rows 7 and 8; the 2″-3″ high scattered carrots in rows 11 and 12. Used the hoe to scrap a 1/2″-1″ deep groove just outside the drip line […]
Continue Reading12/15/2019 – This effort was to fill in gaps in rows where nothing germinated and to plant these seeds differently than done before where germination was poor.
Continue Reading12/12/2019 – Alabama Power Company’s contractor trimmed small limbs from the pecan trees along the power service from the road over the fence along the east side of the front yard. Only small limbs were removed that would one day have grown up into the service drop to our house.
Continue Reading12/11/2019 – Sowed BLS mustard in row 10 where the few DeCicco broccoli seedlings had been moved to row 9. We had 0.41″ slow rain before daylight and the soil was damp and loose. Used the shuffle hoe to freshen the top 1″ and damage the scattered weeds. Used the funnel-on-PVC pipe to place to […]
Continue Reading12/10/2019 – Moved the few DeCicco broccoli that came up in the south end of the north half of row 10 into row 9 where some Decicco had come up.
Continue Reading12/10/2019 – Wayne Maples moved in his excavator yesterday afternoon and we began removal of the field fabric/barb wire fence and old posts between the barn and the pond. Today, Wayne began today excavating the pond by clearing the ditch and the old fence there and we completed the fence work along the barnyard by […]
Continue Reading12/9/2019 – After much reading and evaluation, we fed boron and side dressed with Miracle Grow using info assembled here. The solution was: Miracle Grow mixed at the normal rate of 1 tbps per gallon. 20-Mule-Team Borax mixed at the rate of 1 tbsp in the gallon of MG. A gallon was applied slowly from […]
Continue Reading12/7/2019 – New holes in new growth appears to be occurring on the mustard and more holes in the Bok choy and chinese cabbage in the little garden. Sprayed Spinosad mostly on the top of the leaves.
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