Friday, June 7, 2019

Jam for orioles

Tuesday, June 4, 2019

Saturday, June 1, 2019

Squash bed #1

Back bed
Was rototilled last fall
A few weeds coming up
Turned over a strip down the middle with shovel

Laid down black plastic 10' wide
Planted 8 butternut squash Dam18 from 1204's
Alternated with 8 ichi-kiri squash

This way ichi-kiri and Hubbard shouldn't cross pollinate

West side if bed laid down 4ft poly
Planted black and stripe sunflower in existing holes

Ferted 10-52-10


Put some grass along edges to reshape bed






Re levelled front flagstone under redbud

Dig out trench at end of drain pipes
Leaves there were all black and smelly

Thursday, May 30, 2019

Cherry tomato in asparagus

Put three kinds of cherry tomato from 7201 flat
3 plants per cell
Companion planting

Some tomato seedlings sprouted in bed already from last years tomato plants

Rapini and radish and sweet potato

In tall box seeded row of rapini 2012-
Seeded heavy - will see if any come up
Mainly to get some fresh seed

Planted 6 sweet potato - red

Seeded one row of tillage radish for daikon

Bed has a row of leeks

Cucumber planting

Two 1204 =8 clumps of 3-4 seedlings along one side of 18 ft bean structure

Added 1-2 tillage radish seed
Also added radish to zucchini plated yesterday

Climbing beans

Three sections
Fortex collected from westcoast18 about 24 seeds
Asparagus bean westcoast19 2 seeds 10" apart
Purple beans westcoast19 2 seeds 6" apart

Put plastic rolls across while bed with staples

Need to put netting