A farmer works in acres not hours.
The journal of events related to bushes, trees, flower beds, and the lawn.
9/28/2023 – Bought six Sunset Orange Ball Mums and six Granta Red Belgium Mums. Planted eight in the drveway bed and two next to the small porch at the Kitchen door. The last rain was two months ago on 7/28/2023. Although the beds have drip irrigation the Jasmine likely needed a wider swath and our […]
Continue Reading8/14/2023 – Hedged roses top foot or so and cleaned up the sides to bloom in the fall. 11/30/2023 – With regular deadheading, the roses have bloomed consistently and survived two frosts so far.
Continue Reading8/4/2023 – Spread 13-6-6 Time Release on:
Continue Reading7/29/2023 – Birds have dropped acorns in the blueberry bushes. The little oaks were cut off and the stumps “painted” with Remedy plus diesel. The mixture was in a pint jar that was half filled with diesel (8 oz.) then 2 oz. of remedy added and a splash of non-ionic surfactant. Shook it to mix […]
Continue Reading07/28/2023 – Cut the tops out of the blueberry bushes as the berries are gone. After years of thinking they need to be shorter, we finally pruned them down to about 6-7 feet tall. That was about 1.5 feet shorter than in the past. The debris filled the truck bed. 07/31/2023
Continue Reading7/18-19/2023 – Sprayed Wet-n-Forget on the side patio twice as it soaked in fast. Almost a full hose-end container was applied. Yesterday sprayed the back patio.
Continue Reading7/16/2023 – Pulled up the 2 southmost citrus trees near the west side of driveway and the pear tree at the NE corner of the Lady Daylily Bed. The Blood Orange had never borne fruit and was damaged by the deep freezes this past winter. The satsuma has two main trunks about 18 inches above […]
Continue Reading7/7/2023 – Found carpenter ants in 8-10 pecan trees in the orchard. Also in the northmost tree next to the pole barn and the southmost tree near the house that had been struck by lightning. Killed them with Bifrin IT at 1 oz/gal. They were also around the Sand Pear tree and the Old Oak.
Continue Reading6/15/2023 Benary’s Giant Mix Zinnia Seed Size: 100 Seeds In Stock Each: $7.35 Quantity: 1 TOTAL $7.35 Durango Outback Mix Marigold Seed Size: 500 Seeds In Stock Each: $10.20 Quantity: 1 TOTAL $10.20 Queen Sophia Marigold Seed Size: 1/8 Ounce In Stock Each: $12.85 Quantity: 1 TOTAL $12.85
Continue Reading6/1/2023 – As the first tomatoes are not doing well due to not enough sun time, we bought 7 and planted them with the three Better Boys that were rooted from suckers 4 feet or so from where they were last year on the west edge of the north half. The tomatoes bought were: Had […]
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