My raised bed garden in Conway (Central Arkansas) really benefited from the rain we’ve picked up the past few days. I’ve been able to relax my drip irrigation system for the last 2 weeks because we’ve picked up just enough rainfall to keep moisture in place for the plants. I also dropped a pretty good […]
Getting Soil Ready for Raised Beds
I’ve had a lot of people reach out to me for advice on what they should use to fill their raised beds. I’ve used different techniques over the years but this is pretty much my standard plan moving forward based on everything that I’ve learned through the years… Raised beds can make epic harvests… but […]
Getting a Late Start in the Garden
The other day I was on Facebook and noticed that one year ago my garden was already planted and I had a pretty impressive stand of celery, spinach, lettuce, and a few other things. What’s crazy is that as of today I haven’t even started on my raised beds. It wasn’t that long ago we […]
Tips & Preventative Maintenance to Help You Survive the Big Freeze this Weekend in the Mississippi Delta
I was actually working on a checklist of things to do in preparation for the winter storm we have coming in this weekend when I noticed one of my co-workers shared a document in our slack channel that was much more comprehensive than my list, so I’m stealing his… credit goes to Will Scott. Emergency […]
Check Your Cucumber Plants for Anthracnose
I was just out looking at my cucumber plants this morning at my home in central Arkansas after being gone for a few days and found signs of anthracnose on the leaves. This is a pretty nasty disease that is kinda common w/ cucumbers (especially in the mid-south). This disease can really cut yields if […]
Find us at the 2025 Arkansas Women in Agriculture Conference in Hot Springs, Arkansas
I will be on hand with FBN Community Builder Kelly Rottinghaus at the 2025 Arkansas Women in Agriculture event in Hot Springs, Arkansas. The event starts on March 31st and will run through April 1st. If you haven’t registered yet, click here. This is a great event that offers both educational and networking opportunities for […]
EP:031 – Cotton Rohrscheib & Christiaan Horn – Our Farmers First™ trials in the Mississippi Delta
On this episode I was driving back to central Arkansas after spending the day in Mississippi. The snow was starting to move into the area as Christiaan Horn and I discussed our Community Builder program at Farmers Business Network as well as the importance of the mix order when working with multiple herbicides and tank […]
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EP:030 – Cotton Rohrscheib & Will Scott – Making Agronomic Decisions & Crop Plans for the 2025 Growing Season
On this episode of The Cotton Club podcast I have a conversation w/ Will Scott, our area FBN agronomist. On this show we discuss a variety of topics including; making crop plans, looking forward to the 2025 growing season, selecting seed varieties, biological products from FBN, and what we are hearing on the streets about […]
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Invasive and Toxic Predatory Hammerhead Worms Discovered in Central Arkansas (Conway), Zone 7
This past weekend I shared on my social channels that I had discovered a hammerhead worm in one of our landscape beds at our residence in Central Arkansas. I was sort of surprised at first because I had never actually seen one in person before, only pictures online warning these predatory worms were making their […]
Starting my Raised Bed Garden Seeds for the 2022 Growing Season Indoors
The other day I blogged about the varieties I had selected for my raised bed gardens this season. This past week I went ahead and started some of my tomatoes and celery indoors. I have a really cool setup that I put together a few years back that’s essentially a rolling rack w/ LED grow […]