Thursday, May 23, 2019

Squash cuke castor

Squash cuke one week later
Castor beans a few weeks ago

Susan’s asparagus

Susan's neighbour gave her 2 asparagus plants
A bit dry
Jersey Knight
Planted in corner - they may grow

Tuesday, May 21, 2019

Hazelnut gift

Patricia and Dario gave us 2 Hazelnuts via Mark
Said the male one should be planted upwind of the female
Tags say from Earthgen Nursey www.earthgen.ca
Gamma supposed to be the pollinator variety
Yamhill for the nut production

Were in 3-5 gallon pots

Planted in row of fruit trees at front

Dug Deep hole 18" deep -added twigs to bottom- added soil from hole plus manure and wood chips- planted high



















Monday, May 20, 2019

Parsnip seeded with beets radish

Prepped Deep bed with wood chips manure some soil limestone N fert

3 rows of Dam18 Albion parsnip
5 rows of Dam18 early wonder beets
Put radish in parsnip row as markers

Red kale and purple broccoli planted



Planted out 21 red kale and purple broccoli
turned over 3 rows wit some manure and chips
Added paper shred to edges and middle
Cover with poly
Fert with 10-52-10

no record of when seeded
WestCoast19 Broccoli Red Spear
Dam18 Red Volants Kale

The broccoli package says 196 days- does it have to overwinter before producing flowers?
"these extremely cold hard biennial plants grow over the winter months ready for early spring harvest. Produce sweet, delicious purple flower shoots in the spring with small side shoots over several weeks.

2nd batch of glads May20/19 state of patio pots

4 rows of glads 12 or so per row
One row of small corms
Last row with cormules?

Patio pots planted a week ago