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Wednesday, July 2, 2014

The Tobacco Diaries Week 6: Never A Dull Moment!



Week 6:  

The last of the tobacco has been set. It was a tricky couple of days juggling wheat harvest and getting the ground ready for tobacco, but as always everything got done.  

It is always satisfying to see a wagon full of empty trays! We will now keep an ever watchful eye to the weather radars, hoping the storm clouds approaching do not carry hail with them. Hail can be devastating to a tobacco crop especially when the leaves are big, and in the most fragile state. As they are becoming in the picture below. 
Week 6

The biggest of the tobacco also needed to be fertilized this week. This was done very slowly in a small sprayer with hoses distributing the Nitrogen (fertilizer) directly to the ground. A sprayer was used because the leaves on the tobacco are big enough that a tractor pulling an applicator through them would damage the leaves. 
                                                

We will celebrate the 4th of July with what the forecasters are calling a cooler than normal beginning of July, and will be thankful for what we have, what we have been given, and what the future will bring. 

God Bless! 

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