A farmer works in acres not hours.
4/8/2024 – Set stakes every other tomato and installed the first Florida Weave. Threw around each plant less than a 1/4 cup of 33-0-0. Mike Hart, a neighbor I had not met, stopped on his 4-wheeler to talk about gardening.
Continue Reading3/13/2024 – Mixed Blossom Booster at 1 Tbsp/gallon and applied to:
Continue Reading3/8/2024 – Fertilized the flower beds, oak leaf hydrangea, and satsuma in the orchard with the slow-release fertilizer other than these plants.
Continue Reading2/22/2024 ACES says here for a low-maintenance lawn apply ½ lb. nitrogen per 1,000 SF three times per year. So to get 0.5 lb nitrogen with 15-0-15 would require spreading per 1,000 SF 0.5/0.15 = 3.33 lbs/1,000 SF of 15-0-15. The 15-0-15 contains 2% iron. So, that rate over the actual area is 3.33×53= 176 lbs to […]
Continue Reading2/9/2024 – Pruned the Knock Out roses back to where we did last year and gave the Floribunda roses a “hair cut” to remove the leggy shoots. They are budding out with new leaves. Spread slow-release fertilizer on all of them.
Continue Reading1/4/2024 – Applied ten 40-lb. bags of Austinville Pelletized Dolomitic LawnLime: From their Product Analysis sheet – “This product requires 1844 lbs. to equal one ton of standard liming material (with CCE of 90%).” For our 0.2 acre garden (not including turn rows) with the soil report recommending one ton of standard lime per acre, […]
Continue Reading8/4/2023 – Spread 13-6-6 Time Release on:
Continue Reading6/9/2023 – Mixed at 1 tbsp gallon and applied two, 2.5 gallon batches to all the peppers and tomatoes.
Continue Reading6/6/2023 – The tallest corn has begun to tassel so side dressed it with 33-0-0. Drew a slot with the corner of the hoe beside each row on the east side (opposite the knee-high side dressing). Threw in about 40 lbs. of the granules. Used the hoe to pull the loose soil over the granules […]
Continue Reading5/30/2023 – Tilled the wide rows with the JD Tiller and the corn middles. All the middles have now been tilled or plowed. Only plowed the corn once before it was too tall and so this tilling was the second cultivation. The soil was packed so this also helped that issue. Side Dressed the cucumbers […]
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