Last time we talked about getting the hay equipment ready, today we get down to the actual haymaking so to speak.
Let’s Cut shall We?
Cutting the hay is really like mowing a large lawn, except you don’t mulch up the grass clippings, you just cut it close to the ground and let it fall [...]
I know hay really isn’t a vegetable, but it is an important crop none the less. Hay can have a complete crop cycle from planting or sprigging to harvest and storage, in our case we don’t plant, we just cut the coastal bahia grass that is already growing. Now the breakdown for those of you [...]
Here is the asparagus bed that I planted this earlier this year. All of the crowns came up , which is good. In fact they are really doing well, they all have three or four ferns coming up, with extra shoots too. I have fertilized once so far with a weak shot of fish emulsion, [...]
The cucumbers we planted have really started to climb, and they are just loaded with cukes. I think now that I should have made two separate trellis , one for the “straight eights” and one for the pickling variety I planted, but no, I had to mix them together. I can’t tell one from the [...]