Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 7 Entries. Sunday, February 28 View Page Well, after a year off the time has come!!! Most close to me know but for those that don’t, last year I midway through the season I was laid on my back for 2 months with pneumonia. In and out of the hospital and by far was the sickest I have ever been. So July and august I didn’t go to the patch once. I was either in bed or in the hospital. Once better sometime in September a couple local growers came to help me try to salvage my season and they did an amazing job!! Thanks guys and you know who you are!!! It was an absolute jungle in the greenhouse and they spent hours cleaning up things and making the plants look halfway decent!!! All that happen while I was gone for those 2 months was water on a timer and that’s it. We still ended up with one at 1483 and the other 1109,,, the 1109 had stem rot in July so I knew it wouldn’t do much. After fully recovering I decided to take 2020 off and just grow mustard after mustard crop. I did 2 crops that touched the top of the greenhouse, cut down, tilled in, watered heavy then followed that crop with another mustard crop the same size. Honestly, taking a year off was really nice!:):) Well, it’s now 2021 and I’m ready for the madness again! This crop will get tilled in soon then it’s planting time!!! I can’t wait, we’ll be finishing the documentary this year and I just can’t wait to get into the dirt again!!!! Thanks for the calls, emails and text while I was down!! 2021 here we come!!!   Sunday, February 28 View Page Just a beautiful crop and I’m use to yellow spots throughout my cover crop and thanks to Rons mustard I’m pretty sure we knocked back the disease fairly well!! I’ll do a soil pathogens test soon. So glad to be back and I’ve been watching everyone and the great years they had!! Jim Fredricks’s and his 1705 at our local weigh off blew my mind!! Congratulations my friend, that’s a huge accomplishment down here on the Mexican border!!!! 2021 here we come!!!!   Sunday, March 21 View Page Getting closer and closer! 2021 here we come! Today was a day to till the last cover crop in of the 3 grown while taking the year off.   Sunday, March 21 View Page 3rd and by far the smallest of the mustard crops I’ve grown while resting. This stuff is super easy to cut and turn under when it’s small! Cut and tilled like butter!   Sunday, March 21 View Page Chopped it up in less then an hour and spent another hour doing the edges by hand. You don’t want to risk hitting the greenhouse with the weed wacker! Soil seems to be the best it’d ever been but I’ve thought that before! That fusarium and other diseases lurk deep in the darkness and just wait for that water and summer heat to come!!   Sunday, March 21 View Page Done! Everything hurts, back, knees, shoulders, head, you name it but things got finished today so ready for the next phase!;)   Sunday, March 21 View Page Thanks to the man everyone should try to be like in this hobby! Always willing to help and never holds back! A true leader of the pack and not a jealous bone in his body! I’ll try and do you proud big man! With what I’m up against disease wise we’ll need a lot of God watching over this patch! I’m fired up and that’s a good thing!!!