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2/7/2020 – Sprayed 41% Glyphosate at 6 oz/gallon on the Florida Betony in Crape Bed along the road fence. This is a test to see if the high strength Gly will kill it per the advice in various places. Controlling Florida Betony in the Landscape by the University of Georgia. The following paragraph is from there. […]
Continue Reading2/2/2020 – The front lawn has Florida Betony coming up all over and in some places it is solid. There are other weeds including henbit also scattered in the turf. After much research into herbicides, we settled on ferti-lome’s Weed Free Zone (WFZ) with a non-ionic spreader sticker. On Jan. 25th, I sprayed it on […]
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 Reading10/27/2019 – Spread about 20 lbs. of Pendulum 2G herbicide to stop Burweed from germinating. Spread it with the JD broadcast spreader pulled by the JD lawn tractor over the following areas. a rectangular space in the orchard from the garden to near Pecan No. 2 to the center rows of pecans to a line […]
Continue ReadingTuesday – Arrived after driving through the steady rain from Gulfport. It had slowed to a drizzle when we arrived and so got the TT hooked up and everything works. The rain made it much cooler so that was great. Wednesday Jeff the trim guy and helper arrived at 7:30 AM. Mary and I talked […]
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