A farmer works in acres not hours.
The journal of events related to bushes, trees, flower beds, and the lawn.
2/2/2020 – 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 […]
Continue Reading1/23/2020 – Mary planted 36 daylily seeds collected from our plants last season. After 2 weeks some are coming up.
Continue ReadingBorder Summer Flowering Garden Total number of plants: 100 10 – Freesia single mix8 – Liatris spicata10 – Gladiolus mix50 – Anemone De Caen10 – Iris Hollandica Blue Magic10 – Acidanthera (Peacock Glads)1 – Lilium Stargazer1 – Lilium Yellow County Height: 12 – 60 inches Spacing: 6 inches Spread: 6 inches Light Requirements: Full Sun, Partial Shade Foliage Type: Mixed […]
Continue Reading1/14/2020 – Mixed 4 tbsp per gallon of Monterey Horticultural Oil and sprayed 2 gallons on the citrus and fruit trees in the citrus orchard in the SW corner of the yard. Also sprayed the satsuma tree and old sand pear tree (as high as the pump-up would shoot it) in the pecan orchard at […]
Continue Reading1/1/2020 – The Knock Out and the Julia Child roses are blooming and have a few new leaves despite at least four hard frosts. Fed all the roses a blend of: 1 tbsp/ gallon Miracle Grow 1 tbsp/gallon Epsom Salts 1 tbsp/gallon of Celeated Iron Each received: about 1 gallon on the large Knock Out […]
Continue Reading12/31/2019 – Several weeks ago Mary cut back some of the daylily clumps that had rust and yellow/brown leaves. The cut removed all leaves about 2″ above the ground. They are already putting up new shoots and looking healthy. Will need to watch to see how they do with the cold days. So far, the […]
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 Reading11/20/2019 – As the freeze killed the periwinkle and the hibiscus’ leaves and blooms, we needed something growing in the bed along the Utility Room wall. We bought and planted four 4″ pots of cabbage at Blairs and three 6-packs of Bonnie Plants at Lowe’s. The Bonnie 6-paks were: Buttercrunch Bibb Lettuce Red Leaf Lettuce, […]
Continue Reading11/18/2019 – Planted a Louisiana Sweets Hamlin orange in the citrus grove in the old barn site. Bought at Hurley Farm & Feed Store and grown by Star Nursery. See here for info. It is next to and just south of the Blood Orange in the row next to the pond yard nearest to the […]
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