June 3, 2016 box plants

from Dartnall Home Hardware
flat of 12 box plants $1.49 each or 12 for $14.99 less 15% today
4 fibrous begonia, white, red
2 petunia
2 vinca
2 verbena
2 lobelia

squash planting in main bed June 2, 2016

in main bed had hilled up the middle and put down poly
planed 12 squash plant
4 Hubbard
4 Buttercup
4 Waltham Buttnernut

also planted a tomato, some marigold, a hibiscus, a lavatera under the catalpa at back of house

Planted the 6 1-gal pots of Everbearing Raspberries at far end of the garden beds past the rhubarb patch

The pots had 3 cans per pot- so split the plants and put 9 canes in each 8 ft bed
Dug out the grass, went down shovel depth and removed most of the clay
Added black soil, peat moss and some HG leaves into trench
Backfilled with more black soil

Thursday June 3 added water soluble fert to most of the beds at the back
mixed 20-20-20 with 10-52-10 to end up with 15-36-15 for some beds

Austrian Pine Steps

added black soil to the beds at the new steps near the pine
split the variegated hosta that had been stuck there- Came from under the old deck

Added hostas to the primroses that had been transplanted there
also a ostrich fern from front of the house, and some violas from under the mulberry
Planted a canna, a castor bean, liatris
plus a zinnia and marigold that had been seeded
basil also
add black soil on top of the she-so basil-

bed here also contains evening primrose, and lilies and shasta daisy clump
see http://kingofgreengardenlog.blogspot.ca/2016/04/oriental-lilies.html

Harp planting

A Few seeds were left from the California poppy pack- seeded 3 rows near the rhubarb at the harp

PLANTED  3 Cherry Tomatoes

Sungold
Sweet Gold 1/2 oz golden yellow sweet flavour
Sugar Rush indeterminate very productive

also one Brandywine from an ice cream carton- planted at north end of harp

Had bought some seed tape Carrots

Red Cored Chantenay McKenzie16 from homeDepot

contains 50 ft of seed tape

Also seeded Beet Early Wonder Dam15 in alternate rows

as well as some Cherry Belle Radish between

put a few inches of black soil in bed as well 

Cherry tomatoes

Bought 3 4" pots from Holland Park
$10 for 3
Sungold- orange
Sweet Gold 1/2 oz golden yellow sweet flavour
Sugar Rush indeterminate very productive red colour
Planted  at harp

Cucumber Zuchini

had put down the plastic Mulch

then on May 30

put cucumber in one bed and

green and yellow zuchini in next bed

also seeded some curly parsley at corner of main bed

weeded onion bed, added paper mulch
planted rest of onions from collected seed and some leeks