Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal

[CntryBoy777]

What surprised me about Fl, was whatever ya added to the sand it seemed to disappear....it was there that I became a believer in raised beds. Just so the amendments could be seen a mnth or 2 later. It was the craziest thing I'd ever experienced. Tho, I didn't mind digging in it, having come from this heavy clay stuff.

 

[Mike CHS]

This is my first experience with clay but I'm liking it. I cut grass all winter for the sheep and quit cutting about 3 weeks ago so we can cut for hay.

 

[Baymule]

You must have sent me your Florida sand. Why didn't you send me some of that nice pretty blue ocean water with the waves?? Mike and Fred went to Florida and all I got was this lousy T-shirt and a bucket of sand.

 

[goatgurl]

that is a nice looking ram mike. and your spotted ewe is looking total cutie. hope she puts a little color in your pasture. she looks like some of mine, as cntryboy said. wide load ahead.

 

[CntryBoy777]

If I had more time I'd research how to harvest what I grow for hay....but, that's for future thought...I want to get test results for the 4 fields, then depending on recommendations, I will choose a blend to sow for the best quality grazing that I can afford. I haven't gotten those samples yet, but I will...cause I am curious if field 1 is different, since it is the second yr of growthing thru the winter.

 

[Mike CHS]

We have a definite difference between our north end and south end. We didn't count square bales last year but we got more than double on the south end than the north.

I spent 7 hours weed eating the driveway today so if we can get a forecast with no rain for a couple of days I'm going to hook up the spray tank and break out the glyphosphate. We don't use any more chemical than necessary but I can come up with a whole lot of things I would rather do that weed eat until I started using the chemical. We would have never finished the renovation otherwise.

 

[CntryBoy777]

I need to do a bunch over here too, have thought about getting license for MSMA here.

 

[CntryBoy777]

I've used roundup, but it seems more like fertilizer here than killer. MSMA is what they spray under the power lines here and it kills saplings, too.

 

[Mike CHS]

I need to do some research then on what is MSMA - Roundup does the drive pretty well so far but whatever I use I'm taking an Ibuprofen tonight.

 

[CntryBoy777]

My arms can't hold one for that long a time and would take me dags to recoup from it too. The weight and vibration bothers Joyce, so we only use an electric weedeater....lighter and if ya have power it works we get a couple of yrs out of them then motor burns up and get a new one. However, we do have to tote cords, but I have 3 100' HD cords so just a matter of setting it up. One of my "Other Projects" is to tie into the security/flood lights and drop a GFI recepticle on each post.....just gotta get too it.....