Red hot peppers

The red-hot cayenne peppers hanging in the basement to dry.

December 25, 2014 time to move the peppers

Chocolate habanero peppers transplanted nov 30/14 to 4" pots

Ten lots of 2pp

Pumpkin pie the finished product

Pie pumpkin

Bought from Lindsey's
2 for $4.99
Pumpkin was hard to cut
Looked a bit dry
Saved the seed

For pumpkin pie
Put in large Corning
Started at twenty minutes in microwave

Fr Cynthia fall blooming annual vine

Likes lots of sun

Mina lobata- Spanish Flag

Cynthia called it Mexican Fiesta

Dam Seeds Mina Lobata
http://www.damseeds.ca/productcart/pc/viewCategories.asp?idCategory=927

2868 Spanish Flag

Annual climber with showy flowers, ranging from scarlet to cream. Flowers are bracts lining a stem. Vigorous climber with three lobed leaves. Ht. 3m. Pkt contains approx. 15-20 seeds; 30-40 sds/gm.

Shoot gardening in UK
Genus is ipomoea with Mexican fiesta cultivar (same as some morning glory)
http://www.shootgardening.co.uk/plant/ipomoea-lobata-mexican-fiesta

Botanical name: Ipomoea lobata 'Mexican Fiesta'

Other names: Mina lobata 'Mexican Fiesta', Mina 'Mexican Fiesta', Spanish flag 'Mexican Fiesta', Firecracker vine 'Mexican Fiesta'

Genus: Ipomoea

Variety or Cultivar: 'Mexican Fiesta' _ 'Mexican Fiesta' is a climbing, half hardy annual that has green leaves and tubular flowers that hang and turn from red to orange to cream throughout the summer.

Ipomoea lobata 'Mexican Fiesta' is: Deciduous

Flower: Orange, Red in Summer; White, Yellow in Autumn

Foliage: Green in Summer

Habit: Climbing

Toxicity: May cause stomach discomfort if ingested.

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Anemone planted October 26/14

Planted pkg of ten anemones in front of rose bed staggered row

October 24/14 seeded grass now

Crocus planted be ramp

12 bulbs from dollar store $2

Seeded chocolate habernaro pepper in peat pots

October 6/14 last soybean harvest

Could be fuller but odd one getting to yellow green stage
But mostly green

Squash harvest at front October 5/14

the squash field before picking

the kaboucha harvest- not a lot of big ones

half of the butternuts

the other half- each half about a wheelbarrow full

lots of large sized butternuts, lots of gourd shaped ones

A lot of surface pockmarks- due to leaves on the fruit and then decaying??

Chocolate habanero pepper

From peter cashin and Lenna Rhodes
Plus some unknown pepper

Begonia cuttings

Clipped a few stems of begonia from senior apartment planted boxes
Trimmed bottoms put in bottle with water
Put a stick of willow in jar- maybe the rooting hormone from the Willow will help

Cuttings all rotted and did not form any callous or roots.
Discarded the stems in a couple of weeks

Sept 29/14 tasks

Cleaned up tomatoes -pulled vines and put in compost
Picked second patch - rest of it - of soybeans.
The third patching soybeans- pods are there but not filled. Hopefully will still have time to grow.
Picked green beans - tossed plants into compost- got two 8 litre pails - even though some are large- this variety is still tender.
Second planting- of beans- almost no beans- got the first flush couple of weeks ago- if season was longer would get another picking-
The two pails come of the second flush of flowers and beans of the first planting,
Rosemary juiced a bunch of tomatoes into ziplock bags for freezing

Coneflower echinacea - picked a half dozen seed heads and scattered the seeds here and there- at Shasta daisy row in front- under maple on east side of drive- new beds at back - by rose bed/black eye Susan
Scattered cleome seed
Scattered viburnum, hicks yew, Amur maple seeds at log berm and under a couple of willows, few redbuds
Planted two clumps of
Miscanthus to front near hawthorns and a walnut.
Watered garden and transplanted oak and redbuds

Tidied up pool shed
Put chairs in shed
Moved umbrellas to big shed in 45 gal drum





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Frost sept 19/14

Low predicted of 5
Watered plants
Set sprinkler on squash
Ground frost

Potato harvest spinach sowing sept 14/14

Harvested potatoes got about 12 litres worth
More than ten pounds likely 12

Sowed giant winter spinach Dam13
Three close rows in about one third of bed










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Melon crop

Hint of frost on roof of house
Predicted low of 7 with clouds
Was clear at ten o'clock last night
At 6 am was 5 degrees

Covered eggplant peppers
Picked melons from back garden
Watered squash in front

Zuchini cucumber beds

Sept 14/14
Pulled out. Cucumber and zuchini removed Poly
Seeded tillage radish

Bean harvest

Igloo green beans in 2 round containers

4 by 4 bed of Igloo DAM14 and Garden Corner Stingless planted June 25/14

8 by 4 bed of Dam14 Igloo planted approx May 25th- got a good second crop after a bit of a hiatus

Igloo is a good variety

From Harp- picked a 6 quart basket of Kentucky Wonder climbing beans- beans had gotten large.

Seeded May 25th. Used  the old volleball net for half of the harp and used string for the rest.

Garlic Planting in Big bed Sept 7/14

Planted another 39 rows of 7 garlic =273 + 2 couple extra = 275
used about 30 large sized cloves and a few medium sized
Sorted the cloves by size. Planted the largest ones closest to the bush

Turned over another row in the back garden (fallow this year)
Added compost from large pallet bins, mini-rototilled, raked and levelled.

still have to fertilize-

THinking of planting grass between the rows.

Broccoli August 27/14

Transplanted 24 plants of broccoli seeded earlier - 3 rows of eight
Should be able to harvest at end of October?
If the caterpillars don't get them

September 1, put shredded paper and then the corn huskings as weed barrier/mulch
and fertilized

August 27/14 melons

Cantaloupe honeydew - green and yellow, watermelon

Wilt virus seems to get these

Garlic planting in big bed August 24/14

Stony bed close to bush- was left fallow for this year, kept weeds out
Hand dug 48" row- along furthest edge.
added wheelbarrow and half of compost from the big bins-mini rototilled

Planted medium cloves 40 rows of 7 each - smallest cloves toward the easy
photo shows enough cloves for 42 rows- so last 2 rows were unused.

Fertilized and weed prevented

Another planting August 10/14

Harvested the Spanish onion sets
Left 3 onions that are flowering - maybe will get some seed

Planted in Spanish onion box
Weeded it
Scruffed the surface with the hoe

Farthest 4x4 planted tillage radish and one row of Rutabaga (garden corner

Closest 4x4 bed planted one row of rutabaga dam14
One row of early wonder beets dam14
Planted rest in tillage radish