A farmer works in acres not hours.
The journal of events related to bushes, trees, flower beds, and the lawn.
2/23/2020 – The recommendation is to fertilize the blueberries with 3 oz of Azalea fertilizer per plant. As we have seven bushes in the row that would be 21 oz. Measured about 24 oz. by volume. Threw the fertilizer along both sides and around the ends. Did not seem like much but the recommendation in […]
Continue Reading2/22/2020 – This is our first time to try the SedgeKiller with Sulfentrazone 0.05%. Just before this application I spraying the yard with Weed Free Zone but did not spray near the fruit trees. Used all of a 24 oz. ready to spray Ortho SedgeKiller bottle on the sedge and other weeds in the mulched […]
Continue Reading2/22/2020 – Used the pull-behind sprayer to spray 19 gallons of 1 oz. of Weed Free Zone + 2 tsp of StickerStopper per gallon on the following: Resprayed the surviving weeds in the front and backyard two swathes around the perimeter the area of the septic tank the round areas of former brown patch Sprayed […]
Continue Reading2/11/2020 – Fed Azaleas, Camellias, and Blueberries in the following locations: the azaleas the AC compressor and the large one under the bedroom window; the camellia under the master closet window; the three camellias along the orchard’s 4-board rail fence; the azalea on the east side of the driveway gate; the camellia in the southwest […]
Continue Reading2/11/2020 – Sprayed all citrus in the yard and the one in the garden with Capt. Johns Dead Bug Brew, spinosad, as the leaves are curling. Sprayed them until it ran off both sides of the leaves. 2/23/2020 – Since this spraying I learned the sun degrades spinosad quickly. That is why past sprayings have […]
Continue Reading2/11/2020 – Mary found Cottony Cushion Scale, Scientific Name, Icerya purchasi, on the Knockout Rose at the Guest Room window. Sprayed them with Neem Oil as well as all the roses either side of the front door. This is the first time we have seen this strange-looking insect. See the followup below.
Continue Reading2/7/2020 – 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. Observation – The higher strength solution did kill it. Controlling Florida Betony in the Landscape by the […]
Continue Reading2/3/2020 – Used the hose-end sprayer to drench it for aphids.
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 ReadingThe three crapes along the east side of the driveway have not grown since planting in September 2017. The only thing we can find that might be the problem is that they are planted low with pine bark mulch over the top of the root ball. The root ball should have been left exposed. We […]
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