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7/20/2019 – The okra has produced well up to this week and it seems to have slowed down. That made me wish I had side dressed it last weekend when I should have. There was some 34-0-0 with lime left in a bucket in the grain bin and so I added a little fresh 34-0-0, […]
Continue Reading7/18/2019 – Fed the large crepes along the road with 34-0-0. They continue to bloom well and some are hanging down to the grass as they did in the spring. As I walked by also lightly fed the bridal wreaths and plumbagos. The plumbagos had been close to dying but are now doing well with […]
Continue Reading7/1/2019 – Fertilized all Crepes–including the ones along the road and orchard fence, with 34-0-0. Very lightly threw some on the Sunset Magic Crepes along the driveway and the one at the grain bin. The transplanted azaleas at the grain bin also got a little. Very lightly threw some on the plumbagos and bridal wreaths […]
Continue ReadingThrew about three hands full of 34-0-0 around each of the little peach trees and the pear tree in the wildflower plot. Also put the old hay as a mulch around them as well as the Satsuma–just west of the wildflowers–and holly tree (Christmas Tree).
Continue Reading5/29/2019 – Threw 15-0-15 on the Crepes, Plumbagos, and Indigo. Also spread it on the three little crepes along the new fence and the Oak Leaf Crepe in the orchard as well as the Texas Laurel that is blooming. Several of the crepes along the fence are hanging to the grass with so many blooms. […]
Continue Reading5/28/2019 – Mary pulled the last of the bulb onions and the multiplying onions that had been cut off. I tilled those areas with the TroyBilt cultivator. She planted two rows of Chard along the east edge. The next morning she planted on the north end the basil plants we had raised from seed. She […]
Continue ReadingThe fertilizer used in this first spring garden was as follows. Broadcast before anything planted – 15-0-15 with 2% iron by AGRI-AFC LLC on Dawes Rd. Side dressing – 33-0-0 Nitrogen with Sulfur plus Lime Total Nitrogen ………………………………33% 10.50% Ammoniacal Nitrogen 22.50% Urea Nitrogen Sulfur (Combined as S) …………… 12% Derived from Urea, Ammonium Sulfate […]
Continue Reading5/21/2019 – The three rows of Silver King Corn looks pale and in need of nitrogen. Side dressed it with 34-0-0 + a little lime.
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5/14/22019 – Today, like the last couple of days, began at 7:30 but lasted until 11 AM. I mixed about 4 parts 34-0-0 with one part lime. Scored a shallow V trench with the hoe 6″-8″ from the 2nd and 3rd planting of corn; i.e. all the remaining corn not yet side dressed. Mary dropped […]
Continue Reading5/9/2019 – Fed the Sunset Magic Crepes and the Bay Tree with one gallon each of Fish Emulsion + Miracle Grow.
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