Good morning, and welcome back to Ridin’ Out the Recession, in Miz Judi’s Kitchen. We’re glad to see you guys today.
We’ve been pretty busy the last couple of weeks. It all started with Deb’s spring cleaning, and we’ve been busy ever since.
We bought a piece of land last March that adjoined us in a corner of our property. This piece is 3.7 acres, but has a lot of road frontage on two paved roads. 850’ on one, and right at 1000’ on the main road. We’ve cleared it, I say clear, we took out as few trees as we could, but enough to plant bahaia grass, and this will give the cows a little more grazing too.
We use Pensacola Bahaia, and this is a very drought resistant strain of grass. We went over it last week and picked up roots to clean it up prior to planting seed. We also lifted up some of the oaks where I could mow up under some of them and underbrush them.
This winter though when it gets cold, the cows will underbrush it for me, as they’ll be looking for roughage to eat. During winter time we keep out plenty of mineral, protein and molasses blocks.
The cows will eat palmettos and most anything else during this time of year, but there’s little to no nutritional value in much of anything during this time. The protein, and minerals supplement this for the cows, and they lay to them pretty heavy.
During spring and summer they eat very little of these, as we have the pastures fertilized, it’s warm and we’re getting showers, so there’s plenty just in the grass for them.
But anyway, this week we’ll seed this property, and shut the fence until spring, or possibly next summer. This will give the grass plenty of time to get established. We’ve got a pretty good size pile of roots and things, so we’ll have to burn this first, but we need a good shower prior to lighting it.
We just built a new fence around it, and it made it look nice. A new fence really improves the looks of a place to me. It’s just a four strand barbed wire fence, but if you take your time, and get all your posts even, this dresses a place off.
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‘Ridin Out The Recession With Dub and Deb in “Miz Judi’s Kitchen’!
Note to Readers: There are a few things that Dub doesn’t know but one thing he does know is that the word ‘Riding’ (as in Riding Out the Recession) is spelled with a ‘g’ at the end. But Dub not only walks the walk, but speaks like he is: down home, true blue, and plain speakin’ country folk.
Dub and Deb are both native Floridians, live in Central Florida, and run a small business as well. They have five children, and seven grandchildren.
Both love to cook, love to laugh, grow a garden, and generally try to “aggravate” most anyone around them basically…all in good fun, of course!
