Collecting castor bean seeds

Garlic and snowflakes

Hot Pepper Seeding Dec 4/16

38 piece tray seeded with hot pepper varieties
8 red cayenne
3 yellow cayenne
8 choc habanero
4 red habanero
4 scotch bonnet
3 semi hot long red
4 orange habanero

on heated pad
with greenhouse cover

Tumeric roots

From SXM
Planted in 3- 4"pots

Squash Seed saving

How to Grow Squash

The three species of squash that we offer represent a wide variety of shapes and colours. Each will cross-polliinate readily whithin their species. For instance, all C. pepo will cross-pollinate with each other, but not with C. maxima or C. moschata. For people who want to save their seeds, this is a very important consideration. The fruits themselves will not be affected by cross pollination, but the seeds inside will be, so squash need to be grown in isolation from other members of their species if seed saving is the goal. Follow along with this handy How to Grow Squash from seeds Guide and grow food.

C maxima

BUttercup - 

Hubbard

Uchikiri

C moschata

Butternut 

C pepo

Zuchini

Red Russian

3 rows of 6 each free red Russian garlic from Wes coast seed
Added one row of 7 regular garlic

Scapes Garlic seed

Planted a number or rows into a 4x4 bed
50 or more in each row

Italian then yogoslavian

Italian - I think 5 rows

then 3 rows yugoslavian

then 6 rows of regular garlic 7 per row.

19 red Russian

planted 19 Red Russian

another package of 3 supposed to come soon as a n/c free shipping bonus because on November 1st the WestCoast seed websites said 30% off garlic

West coast seeds

On November 1st website says 30% off garlic

West coast garlic instructions

6 Italian hardneck garlic

6 became 32 cloves
3 had 5 cloves
1 had 7
1 had 4
1 had 6

• Basic Italian hardneck
• Allium ophioscorodon
• Large bulbs
• Easy to peel purple cloves
• Strong, spicy flavour
• Allium ophioscorodon. Italian Hardneck garlic bulbs are the basic Italian hardneck. This Porcelain garlic produces large bulbs with easy-to-peel purple cloves with spicy, strong flavour. Plant it once and never buy garlic again! Harvest your own and keep the best looking cloves aside for fall planting every year. Garlic is easy to grow and productive in a small area. Plus it stores for months when properly cured so you can use it all winter until the next crop is ready to harvest. Our Italian hardneck garlic is grown right here in beautiful British Columbia.

3 Red Russian garlic

3 bulbs equaled 19 cloves

• Hardneck
• Withstands soggy soil
• 4 to 8 cloves per bulb
• Distinctive wrapper leaves
• Allium ophioscorodon
• Allium ophioscorodon. The distinctive wrapper leaves of these big bulbs are slightly purple. Red Russian garlic has the ability to withstand soggy winter soils better than any of the others. Expect between two and eight substantial cloves per bulb of this flavourful heirloom garlic variety. Separate the cloves and plant them with the pointed end up in September or October. Harvest the following July and follow our curing instructions to get the most out of storage. Once the plants are 2/3 to 3/4 withered above ground, stop watering for a few days. Then harvest by loosening the soil around each bulb and gently pulling on the stem. If the bulb does not lift easily, continue loosening the soil.

Yugoslavian garlic

3 bulbs equalled 17 cloves

• Rocambole porcelain type
• Heirloom
• Grown in BC for decades
• Hot, strong flavour

Allium sativum var. ophioscorodon. This classic porcelain rocambole type has been grown in British Columbia for decades. Yugoslavian Porcelain garlic has large bulbs with copper veins and some purple blotches. Expect nine to fourteen cloves per bulb, each with a solid, dark brown skin colour. The flavour is described as being hotly spicy at first, mellowing to a good, strong taste. This variety stores particularly well if it is cured properly. Plants are large and vigorous. Be sure to keep the garlic bed free from weeds leading up to harvest time. Apply a balanced organic fertilizer as soon as spring growth is underway.

Garlic netting

Named Garlic purchase

4 pkgs at $11.95 each
3 bulbs per pkg =$4 pe bulb
6 Italian hardneck
3 Yugoslavian
3 Red Russian
From West Coast Seeds
Www.westcoastseeds.com

Potatoes in bee boxes

harvest from the 4 boxes on the left- 

position on tray reflects the position of the boxes

Photo below adds the 2 other boxes on the right

Potato tubers were almost all down at the point of planting
So when planting- plant on a raised mound and then hill up after that

Same with bags- put a good amount of soil in the bottom- 12" then Jill up from that point??

Sweet potato harvest

Whole lot in the planting hole- soil was softer
Where the vine roots- there were som small roots swelling

Next year- make sure to grow in a bed with well loosened soil
And encourage vines to root wherever possible

Coreopsis

Coreopsis

Saved seed

HERITAGE PERENNIALS

 Order via Tradebank 

September 2016 perennials from Valleybrook Gardens HERITAGE PERENNIALS

Full flats

MISCANTHUS S. GRACILLIMUS ORNAMENTAL GRASSES - 15cm 5" The most popular one. Narrow green leaves, coppery-pink plumes. Z5 tray of 8 $6.65 x 8 =53.20  

ASTILBE CHIN. PARTIEZZ KARAOKE PARTY  15cm 5" Raspberry plumes over bright green, deeply cut foliage. Z3 tray of 8 $6.65 x 8 =53.20  

CAMPANULA CARP. PEARL WHITE HERITAGE PERENNIALS 15cm 5" Companion to ‘Blue Pearl’. White flowers, larger than ‘Clips’. Z2 tray of 8  $5.25 = $42.00

COREOPSIS V. ZAGREB HERITAGE PERENNIALS 9cm 3" Compact selection, golden-yellow flowers for weeks. Z4 tray of 18 @1.94 = $34.92

GERANIUM CANT. CRYSTAL ROSE HERITAGE PERENNIALS 15cm 5" Magenta-pink blossoms, foliage tinted orange in fall. Z4 $7.65 tray of 8 =$ 61.20

HEMEROCALLIS NIGHT WINGS HERITAGE PERENNIALS  15cm 5" Black-red, velvety flowers; contrasting green throat. Z3 tray of 8 @ 9.10 = 72.80 

VERONICA FIRST LOVE HERITAGE PERENNIALS 15cm 5" Fantastic fluorescent pink flower spikes on compact plant. Z3 tray of 8 @$5.80 = 46.40

ECHINACEA SOMBRERO SALSA RED HERITAGE PERENNIALS  15cm 5" Large, bright red petals surrounding a brown cone. Z5 tray of 8 @$8.50 = 68.00 

HEMEROCALLIS CHRISTMAS RIBBON HERITAGE PERENNIALS 15cm 5" Huge star-shaped red flowers; gold throat. Spider-type. Z2 tray of 8 @ $10.00 =$80.00 

Ash August 15-2016 Conditions

 

 

9" diameter
32" circumference
12 caps
2.7" apart

Garlic august 12/16 (73 x 6= 426) Total 1030

Planted from medium sized bulbs
Row 1 - nearest maples- 35 rows at 6 per row
Smallest ones on this row
Middle Row- 37 rows @6 per row
Smallest ones near road

Garlic 52x6=312 Aug 12/16

Ranged sizes
Smallest at bottom end
52 rows of 6 each
Take from the smallest harvested bulbs

Small garlic planting August 12/16 (16x6=96)

Planted bottom east side
Wood lot garlic
16 rows with 6 across
Closest to maples- wood lot garlic
Middle row small bulbs

Small bulbs plantings garlic Aug 12, 2016 (98+98)

98 each of garlic piulled from along bush and 98 of assorted small bulbs
Planted at the bottom end of the garlic beds - nearest the road
and the 2 beds closest to the road entrance

Front garlic bed prep August 11/16

New seeding July 19 Mixed beets, carrots

From garlic bed emptied
Added wheelbarrow black loam
Seeded
Beets aimer16
Spinach dam14 - was too old very few came up
Radish 2016
Carrot Mckenzie16
Rutabaga Dam14
Lettuce dam13
Rapini from in garden- spring plants gone to seed

Garlic Harvest July 18/16

Believe this to be the first plant
Small bulbs in first row- are still big but more missing in that end of planting

Beans bush seeded July 12/16

Four rows in four foot bed