43 going up to 61 in clouds this morning, then clearing.
Going to be a busy day with helper here, lots of work in garden.
First job is to put down 34-0-0 on the collards, which are growing nicely and hopefully will survive this week's
coming deep freeze. Rows are intentionally very wide, so i can pull a cart/drive the golf cart, between rows, so today
I'll simply pull a cart with bags of fertilizer in them and side dress the plants.
Sure would like to rig up something with a long
pipe on it so I could drag it along ground for concentrated application vs sprinkling fertilizer on top. A manual version of the fertilizer down pipe that the old Super A uses would be nice. I might fiddle with that flex pipe and see if I can adapt it. Not sure how plants will like
all that nitrogen dumped on top of them, wondering if it could burn them, so prefer to side dress, like I will/have done with the potatoes.
Collards like lots of nitrogen and they say to keep applying it every two weeks. Not doing that but maybe two applications. I don't want to overdo it because this field slopes nicely down to the main drainage ditch for the area, which leads right to the Pamlico River. We all know what fertilizer does to rivers and bays, not good.
Ron, I cut back on the amount of coffee used this morning, and yes, it tastes a little weak. But still ok.
Going to try to use less, and mix it half and half with decaf. I really need the caffeine to counteract my arthritis meds, lots of muscle relaxers and other neurological pain killers so honestly not sure how this will work out. But clearly I have to try.
I think I'm like many, get up, head for the coffee pot...
Cutting down on coffee will also cut down on sugar/Splenda used, which in itself is a good thing.
The good news is I have a close friend who owns a coffee business, and going to ask him to get some of that Peets decaf blend, thanks RNG.
The Food Lion decaf is pretty bad, plus I think the process likely messes up the flavor anyway. I think the water based decaf is supposed to be better for you vs chemically processed decaf. I'm sure if I bought decaf beans and roasted them like Wingsprd does, they would taste totally different, actually have some aroma, which I find decaf lacks.
Hope you all have a nice weekend. I see some snow on radar coming down in Eastern PA and Northward, the winter that doesn't stop for our friends in New England. And for sure the MidWest and even the West. The mountains in California (and Washington I think) have had amazing amounts of snow.
