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4/19/2023 – Using info developed and the experience from past years sprayed the lawn and turn rows in the garden with Fertilome’s Weed Free Zone (WFZ). WFZ kills/controls Florida Betony, Spiderwort, and Creeping Charlie which are major issues this year…as usual. From the post on 4/18/2021 for tests of Fergie’s speeds. Gear at 540 RPM […]
Continue Reading4/10/2023 – Sprayed Shoreclear along the edges of the pond to kill the weeds, a few invasive Floating Hearts and the thin dark green leaf plant growing on somewhat top of the water that appears to be Florida Pondweed based on photos at IFAS here and here. Mixed it at 3 oz/gallon which is supposed to be […]
Continue Reading3/5/2023 – Sprayed 41% Glyphosate at 6 oz/gallon on the Florida Betony in all beds to kill the Florida Betrony. 3/18/2023 – The Betony is dying. That concentration worked.
Continue Reading3/2/2023 – Spread Pendulum 2G preemergent herbicide for Crabgrass on spots in the front and west yards and other places listed below to prevent crabgrass and other weed germination. This has been a warm February so maybe should have spread it a few weeks ago.
Continue Reading11/01/2022 – 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 […]
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