Fertilized & Tilled Mary’s Garden
8/17/2019 – Threw about 2 gallons of 15-0-15 plus two double handfuls of lime evenly over the garden. Tilled it and the manure into the top 4″. Then raked it level.
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Ranger Arrived
8/16/2019 – Ted and Cheyanne surprised Mary with the horse named Ranger. They acquired him from James Douglas, Farrier, in Citronelle.
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Today’s Garden Harvest
Today we had the largest harvest yet of cucumbers and a few more PEPH peas. Also, two new vegetables–corn and the first okra pods.
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Harvesting, Sidedressing, Planting, and Transplanting
5/20/2019 – We started this morning about 7 AM and worked until 9:30 in the garden and accomplished the following: Enjoyed the first-ever squash and zucchini harvest of 2 large zucchini and four 6″ long yellow squash. In the photo below are three zucchini as I picked one yesterday. Thinned the cantaloupes to two plants […]
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Completed old hay string removal and reseeding in the old garden
5/18/2019 – For the past 3 months we have worked to remove the 20+ years of hay string in the area of the old garden immediately north of the new garden. Of course, the removal of the string will never end but we got the worst of it and what is left that we can […]
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Side Dressing, Planting & Pruning
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 […]
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Garden: Thinning, Planting, Weeding, Spraying
5/13/2019 – Mary and I worked in the garden from 7:30 to 10:00 am and accomplished the following: We thinned the 2nd and 3rd planting of peas. I pulled the corn from the row of peas and transplanted some of it in the second row of corn alongside some I transplanted a few days ago. […]
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4 Lightning Strikes in the Yard
4/19/2019 – The storm that roared through last night tried hard to get us as lightning struck the power pole at the street shattering the top of the pole and leaving the top lying on top of the shattered stub. Ironically the wires supplying the house were left intact so we did not lose power. […]
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Old Tub & Soap Pot as Planters
4/11/2019 – We completed setting up one of the old tubs as a planter next to the “porch” at the grain bin. Filled it with the good topsoil from the pile made by the patio contractor. Mary planted seeds from SESE in it. Nasturtium, Jewel Mixed – right middle African Marigold, Crackerjack Mix – left […]
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Lowered Azaleas at Old Fence for our Historic Display
About 4/10/2019 – We have talked about taking out the azaleas in front and surrounding the old fat-pine fence corner post, brace and brace post so they could be seen. We decided to leave the azaleas but cut them back enough to see the posts. The plan is to install the pitcher pump and maybe […]
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