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11/01/2022 – Spreader Pendulum 2G to prevent Burweed from germinating with the cyclone seeder set on 2. Spread it in the areas below. Roughly half the 40 lb. silver metallic bag was spread. The remaining half bag will be spread in early spring on spots in the yard to prevent crabgrass and other weed germination.
Continue Reading8/28/2022 – We have not needed to spray Cutrine Algaecide around the pond in the past two months although there have been some filamentous algae it did not grow worse. We have also had 14 inches of rain in July and 19+ inches so far in August. There are some bright green spots that are […]
Continue ReadingMixed 3 gallons of gly at 4 oz. per gallon in the new backpack sprayer and sprayed around: all pecan trees in the orchard and yard that did not have beds; around the barn and old equipment; around the grain bin; around the blueberries in the yard and pond yard; around the 3 magnolias in […]
Continue ReadingPlaces that we did not spread the pre-emergent have burweed not blooming yet. Sprayed them with 2,4-D Amine 4 at 1 oz/gallon that is supposed to spray 1,000 SF. Included a non-ionic surfactant. Sprayed 1.5 gallons: west of the tack shed where the burweed is still lush green as opposed to what was spreayed last week that […]
Continue Reading3/16/2022 – The pre-emergent worked well but missed some spots. Sprayed them with 2,4-D Amine 4 at 1 oz/gallon to spray 1,000 SF. Included a non-ionic surfactant. Sprayed 1.5 gallons: west of the Tack Shed to the middle row of pecans; SW of the Tack Shed to the middle row of pecans and east to […]
Continue Reading3/2/2022 – mixed 32 oz of WFZ in 13 gallons of water with non-ionic surfactant in the pull-behind sprayer in the back of the Gator. Sprayed: the front yard the east side yard north to the gate the backyard from the pecans to the driveway along both sides of the driveway three swaths along the […]
Continue Reading2/10/2022 – Spread 40 lbs of Pendulum 2G to control crabgrass in the yard. The last application on 10/26/2021 using the cyclone seeder set at 2 seemed to be about the right rate and it did control/eliminate the burweed. At the setting of 2 it appeared to spread 3.5 lbs/1000sf. The application rate table in […]
Continue Reading1/31/2021 – As done successfully in 2021, sprayed 6oz/gal Glyphosate of FL betony in east daylily bed at the orchard, along the Crepe bed by the road and the bed beside the guest room and office.
Continue ReadingSprayed WFZ at 2 oz. per gallon using the pull-behind sprayed in the Gator. That would be about 2/3 oz/1000SF that is low but higher than the last time and that time worked ok. Sprayed: Between the east row and center row of pecan trees from the road to one tree away from the Tack […]
Continue Reading10/26/2021 – Found a partially used 40-lb bag of Pendulum 2G in the grain bin in a heavy black trash bag. Used the cyclone seeder set at 2 to spread it in the area of the orchard and yard where we set up the volleyball net and where the Burweed is always bad. Using Google […]
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