A farmer works in acres not hours.
The journal of events related to bushes, trees, flower beds, and the lawn.
Before the rain began this morning (first rain in a month) we widened the narrow bed between the SE corner bed with the power pole and the southmost new camellia. Dug up the large clump of daylilies in the driveway bed and pull out two fans. Dug up a clump that was out of place […]
Continue Reading4/3/2019 – Built a round compost bin with 48″ high field fence. Placed in next to the grain bin at the blower/dryer. Put the yard garden debris and the wildflowers debris removed from the bed along the wood fence/road. 4/6/2019 – We have pulled the wildflowers and weeds from the backyard beds and out them […]
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We completed tilling the bed along the wood fence. Mary planted the four new daylily varieties (21 total plants) she ordered from American Meadows. They are cited below. ‘Crimson Pirate’ Daylily blooms in clear red with golden yellow accents and a sunny yellow throat. Narrow, elongated petals give this easy-care plant a refined look, especially […]
Continue ReadingThe bed along the wood fence between the Crepes was cleaned out –other than the ends–of the wildflowers that were mostly clover last week. Used the Troy-Bilt cultivator till the soil that was hard other than next to the crepes and plumbago where it is moist from our watering the plants. Pried off fans from […]
Continue ReadingAll below was fertilized with 15-0-15 unless otherwise noted. Crepe Myrtles along the road – 1 pint (~1 lb) in about a 10′ x 10′ area around the trunk per the soil test. Lightly dribbled around the daylilies, roses, blue plumbagos, and bridal wreaths in the same bed. A little less than a pint on […]
Continue Reading3/27/2019 – Bought a Brown Select Satsuma and two “Julia Child” gold floribunda roses at Sessions. The Julia Child rose, known in the UK as the Absolutely Fabulous rose, is a golden butter or golden floribunda rose, named after the chef Julia Child. WikipediaScientific name: Rosa ‘Julia Child’ Higher classification: RoseCultivar: ‘WEKvossutono’. Origin: Tom Carruth; (United States, […]
Continue ReadingAbout 3/27/2019 – Tom fed the three purple crepes a blend of Miracle Grow and fish emulsion.
Continue ReadingThe last rain was on 3/4/2019 and was the fourth day in a row where we had about 0.25″ each day. That was a small amount of rain after a week of dry winds. Since then the humidity has been low and the wind blowing out of the north or south. So, the flower beds […]
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3/18/2019 – We bought at Blair’s a second Autumn Sunburst Encore Azalea for the west side of the gate to balance the one on the east side. It cost $30. I stopped at Sessions Farm Market after lunch and they were unloading four pallets of hibiscus. I bought two 3-gallon Painted Ladies and two 3-gallon […]
Continue ReadingThe wildflowers we sowed last fall between the crepe myrtles and daylilies seemed to be largely crimson clover and the grasses came on strong. Today we gathered the grass seed heads although some had already dropped their seeds. Put all the heads in the garbage. We have finally given up and so cut the clover, […]
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