King of Green Garden Log: 2020

Sunday, November 29, 2020

Wednesday, October 28, 2020

Thursday, October 22, 2020

Saturday, October 10, 2020

Portulacaria cuttings

Thicker stems
Put pot on heating mat

October 28 has roots

Friday, October 2, 2020

October 1/20 statrted bringing plants in

Cleaned up basement area

Levelled slats on churxh Chair’s

Realingned lighting

Ordered new timer

4 bread trays of Portulacaria to start

Upstairs

Brought in jades to solarium and family room

Brought large aloe to family room and one gallon aloe to kitchen

Living room - one gallon jade and Portulacaria bonsi

Sunday, September 20, 2020

Garliic planting Sept 20 -front bed under poly

Planting Garlic planting at front

from top down to lower level

from left to right (west to east, from fruit trees to wards the driveway entramce

under poly - first 4 rows 4 ft wide with 12' aisle, use 20 ft wide poly

row 1- 7 cloves across- 24 rows of 7 - 7" by 7"

7 rows Thai, 3 rows japanese, 6 rows Rose de Latrec, 6 rows Purple Glazer, 2 rows Fitzki

row 2- 7 cloves wide, 23 rows

5 rows Spanish Roja, 6 rows German Red, 4 rows Mexican Purple, 1 row red russian small from scapes bed, 7 rows regular Red Russian

row 3- 7 cloves across 23 rows

4 rows Yugoslavian, 6 rows Bogatyr, 7 Italian, 6 Duganski

row 4- 7 across, 22 rows

3 fitzki, 4 German Hardneck, 7 rows Music, 8 Fitzki (from large cloves)

row 5- 4 ft across- 8" by 8" spacing so 6 cloves per row

20 rows of 6 across- used small Fitzki bulbs

row 6- not as wide- 5 across 7" apart- 23 rows

6 rows Red Russian from scape bed, 6 rows Fitzki from scapes at Miscanthus bed, 11 rows of cloves from Fitzki small bulbs

row 7 - 5 across 8" by 8" spacing - 5 cloves across- 20 rows

20 rows of fitzki from XL bulbs

Count

row 1- 168

row 2- 161

row 3- 161

row 4- 154

row 5- 120

row 6- 115

row 7- 100

Total = 811

Duganski vs Bogatyr difference

Duganski is reddish with many cloves

Bogatyr is brownish

Fewer cloves and less interior cloves but still has a few

Saturday, September 19, 2020

Frost this morn Sept 18/20

Umbrella makes an excellent frost cover

Tomato edges got touched

Low of plus 2-3

Put sprinkler on tomato and squash beds

Portulacaria tip touched lightly

Castor beans out in open we’re not affected

Hose was partially frozen

portulacaria facts

https://www.gardeninginsouthafrica.co.za/groundcovers/spekboom-porkbush-elephant-s-food-intelezi-isidondwane-igqwanitsha-ts

finally found photo of bloom- when searching under spekboom

https://www.shamwari.com/5-amazing-facts-about-spekboom/

flowers grow on tips

https://inlandvalleygardenplanner.org/plants/portulacaria-afra/

September 19, 2020 early frost

weather called for low of 5 Celsius

was frost on plastic at vegetable boxes

used some umbrellas to cover elephant bush, portulacaria, spekboom

Tuesday, September 15, 2020

ept 15 garlic assortment bed 2

Long bed (was going to be zuchini but not used in 2020
added leaves, wood chips and N fert, turned over
From east
4 rows of 7 Fitzki

3 rows Yugoslavian
3 rows German Hardneck

3 rows Music

1 row of Michael Szelag garlic - 6 rounds that were grown in harp bed- spring planted- May 29)

Sept 15 garlic assortment planted

In Long bed- put sampling of various garlic varieties
7 per row
starting from east side
2 german red
2 Spanish Roja

2 Mexican Purple

3 Bogatyr

2 Duganksi ( has smalr clover but more of them)

3 Italian

this bed sat empty all year with plastic over- was going to be Zuchini but wasn't used

added leave and wood chips, forgot to add some N fert

Sunday, September 13, 2020

Back Garlic Planting 2020

never recorded at the time-

But sometime between Sept 6 and Sept 20

Top name is westernmost, bottom is easternmost

Door Frame- closest to Bean Frame

Rose de Latrec 4 x7

Purple Glazer 5 x7

Fitzki 3 x 7

Thai and Japanese planted Sept 6, 2020

3 x 7 Japanese

4 x 7 Thai

Red Russian Frame

Red Russian 14 x7

16 ft Frame

Michael 1x7

German Hardneck 3x7

Music 3x7

Yugoslavian 3x7

Fitzki 4x7

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Italian 3 x7

Duganski 2x7

Bogatyr 3x7

Mexican Purple 2x7

Spanish Roja 2x7

German Red 2x7

Fitzki

Monday, September 7, 2020

Red Russian sept 6

98
14 rows of 7
Largest to the east
Planted into former red Russian scape bed

used scapes from the self same bed

Sunday, September 6, 2020

Door frame sept 6 garlic

Sept 6, 2020 in door frame bed

planted Rose de Latrec, Purple Glazer and Fitzki (as control)

did 7 clover per row

Thai Japanese garlic sept 6

West
3 rows of 7
Japanese largest to west

4 rows of 6 Thai

Largest to east

june 20, 2021

dug 29 Thai- so maybe was 4 rows of 7

28 planted?

2 jumbo

19 xlarge including 1 detached, and one pulled off

4 large

2 medium

2 xsmall

Total 29 (saw one place 2 appeared to have been in same spot)

Dug June 20

Tuesday, July 28, 2020

Tuesday, July 21, 2020

GARLIC EARLY HARVEST VARIETIES

HARVEST EARLIEST

THAI

JAPANESE

ROSE DE LATREC

SPANISH ROJA

RED RUSSIAN

MEXICAN PURPLE

GERMAN RED

PURPLE GLAZER

DUGANSKI BOGATYR

ITALIAN

YUGOSLAV

GERMAN HARDNECK, MUSIC, FITZKI

Monday, July 20, 2020

Beets Better Tasting

Beets Evaluation- taste

Kestrel has better taste thn Bulls BLood (more for beet tops perhaps - redder leaves)

Kestrel has greener leaves

https://www.damseeds.com/products/kestrel-hybrid

order kestrel, sugar snap, winter spinach

Sunday, July 12, 2020

Japanese garlic july 12=2020

July 12/20

Made sizing template

Dug from non poly

5 xs

1 large

13 small

12 medium

31 total

From poly

2 jumbo

15 xl

11 large

8 medium

4 small

40 total

Plus 6-7 fall Aparts

Monday, July 6, 2020

Aisle ov View

New signs for the garden
“Aisle of View” looking into the yard
And there you see a garden island with Hicks Yews =“Isle of Yew”

Wednesday, June 24, 2020

Friday, June 12, 2020

june12-20

planted 5 1204 boxes of portulaca into planter

had separated the plants from a single box of 1204 portulaca

along w/ castor plant

silver maple by harp -large branch came down

Monday, June 8, 2020

June 7/20

Planted 3 potted red leaf canna in south shrub bed

Trimmed bonsai on ramp shelf

Seeded another row of soybeans 3” apart

Boys cut chive flowers off-! Put flowers at roadside to left of entrance

Add poly to climbing bean row

Jackie planted some beets carrots

Plates 12 sweet peppers plants from Armstrong home hardware -3 boxes $1.99 in tomato bed plus 2 more eggplant

Planted 5 red cabbage plus seedling kale plants

Jackie put up posts for bird house gourds

Took down poly form verandah

Rat has been eating rat poison- rat found dead in pool

Planted canna bulbs front garden

Roofing to start Tuesday

Husquvaran mower front wheel out of line again

put planter fert on planter

supposed to keep squirrels from digging in pot

first night they dug in sweet potato planter -but perhaps because pellets were still dry

no activity since

hen manure

Monday, June 1, 2020

Michael Garlic May 29/20

2 bulbs from his fridge
Planted in harp along with one bulb Fitzki for comparison
11 cloves

Sunday, May 31, 2020

Tomato Squash, Cuke may 21/31/2020

Sunday mayn 24

Planted San Marzano from Satelite

Planted a few Eggplants from Matchbox and Satelite

A few hot peppers

Spread down 25ft poly on main bed

planted Butternut squash, and Hubbard squash and 8 Bird's House Gourds

seeded black sunflowers

Planted cucumbers in trellis area

Later in week

planted more tomatoes from Caledonia, more eggplant

Hot peppers

planted a number of castor beans

transplanted smaller tomatoes to 4" pots

transplanted 4" jade to 6" pots

platned up annual planters- about 7 with petunia purple salvia, dusty miller, canna, marigold, as well as portulacara, some streptocarpella, wandering jew, one spider plant, couple aloes maybe shiso basil

May 31 put down 10 ft poly for Zuchini

planted 2 varieties of Zuchini 4 plants each

planted 3 assorted sweet pepper 4" from Fortinos

planted 10 more eggplant 4"

seeded some pak choi Dam20

some beets, some red spinach, a few swiss chard, some leeks

Seeded parsnips in end bed- left wood chips and put peat moss in trough and added few red radish

TUrned over for climbing bean bed

trimmed cnowball carcrphalum

Planted 11 Ichi Kiri squash in Miscanthus bed - going to be garlic this fall

seeded black sumflower along bed edge

Planted 5 pots Asparagus beans and rest of row in Purple climbing beans 3-4 inches apart

Claudius crew here fixing roof

Monday, May 18, 2020

Hanging oriole feeder

Squash and cuke seeding may 17/20

Seeded 1204 tray
Marketmore cucumber 1 Pak 5pp Dam18
Mercury cucumber 1 Pak 4-5pp dam20 18 seeds per packet - slender mini cucumber 4-6"

Dunja zuchini squash dam20 1 Pak 2pp 8 seeds in packet - most disease resistant variety

Deema squash - dam20 Middle East type- 1pak 3pp- 12 seeds In packet

Sunday, May 17, 2020

Garden Bed Layout 2019- 2020

Larger bed Rotation

Rotation of large beds

Fitz Farm Manor

Garlic beds get dug up to harvest and then need rototilling to level out after

Plant tomatoes the year after

Squash needs minimal tillage so squash should follow tomatoes

Since Garlic is planted in the fall – the year of Garlic planting is shown as Fallow/Garlic- spring fallow can be used for Rapini, lettuce and other short season crops

Garlic is show as a spring crop- can be followed by Tillage radish, sometimes by rutabaga or short crops like spinach or lettuce

Rotation from 2020 will follow this but there may be changes

	Front Bed/Willow Grass Beds (2 separate beds)	Field East	Field West	Main Bed behind house
2018	Garlic	Squash	Tomato	Fallow/Garlic
2019	Squash	Garlic	Fallow/Garllic	Tomato
2020	Fallow/Garlic	Tomato	Garlic	Squash
2021	Garlic	Squash	Tomato	Fallow Garlic
2022	Tomato	Fallow/Garlic	Squash	Garlic

More seeding

3paks 3pp of 2016 ichi kiri squash

1 Pak pandora poppy Dam18

2paks Nemophilia baby blue eyes westcoast17

2 paks mini sweet pepper

2pKs chocolate habanero

1 Pak red cayenne

5 peat pots of west coast 19 asparagus bean

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Squash and cucumber seeding may 17/20

Seeded one tray 1204 48 in total

Cucumber marketmore dam18 1pak 5pp

Cucumber Mercury Dam20 1 Pak 4-5pp 18 seeds in packet 4-6" mini cubes

Dunja squash Dam20 disease resistant 2pp one Pak 8 seeds in packet

Deema squash Dam20 middle eastern type 3pp one Pak 12 seeds in packet

Butternut 16&18 2 of each per Pak or 4pp 4 paks total

Orange Hubbard 2018 3paks 3pp

Green squash from fina 2019 1pak 3pp

Thinking of putting ichi Kiri 2016 in front bed where garlic will go- likely be finished by garlic time

Sugar snap peas May 17/20

seeded one package of Sugar SNap peas-

package says thin to 2" apart - planted 15-16 seeds per row( 8-9 rows)

Dam 20 Cascadia 68 days 2-3 ft vines

Lettuce transplanted

transplanted lettuce seedling from last years lettuce bed and seedlings from lettuce planted in March

dug a big clump of the yellow daffodils from under the weeping mulberry- planted the bulbs along the front along 3rd line- under trees, between daylilies

plated about 4-5 rows of glads with Jackie 10 bulbs per row

Jackie seeded beets, rutabaga, pak choi

brought her birdhouse gourds- transplanted from egg carton to 4 inch pots about12-13

Kids went swimming for about 45-60 minutes

Alejandra, Raquel mowed Kaleb dug weeds, Marco took beans down and hulled some

Tuesday, May 12, 2020

Anemone May 12/20

Frost last few nights

Covered asparagus
Put heater in verandah

Sunday, May 10, 2020

May10

planted 3 rhubarb at harp and 2 by arbor gateway

Friday night was cold -2 put heater in covered verandah

dug daffodils by mugho pine along south wall under kitchen window, plantes some here and there

fixed rhubarb bed boards that were loose- they are untreated and just dug them in deeper- have rotted to point that there is not much wood to screw into

trimmed some low lying branches along roadway lawn

dug out yarrow from hammock step put them in far south east border beds and hugel garden

planted red cannas by front bed where the purple sand cherry tree used to be

some along fence near mini roses, some near koren lilac bush, some in bird bath bed where miscanthus used to be, some in
seeded sunflower black in front bed, in front roadway beds, by viburnum at shed, by purple sand cherry/cedar, by elderberry,
planted calla lily by harp between rhubarb

Wednesday, April 29, 2020

Castor and more

Castor beans
Susan's tropical
Cosmos sensation mix 18
Oriental poppy red 2019

Basil and more

6gjost pepper
Red volant kale18
Red Russian 14
5-Nasturtium jewel of Africa 19
Four o'clock
Mixed basil18
Mammoth basil 14
Italian basil20
Clarkia17

Tomato seed April 29

12 w19
18 garden treasure 19
6 w original18
6 garden treasure original18
6 good guy16
6 brandy wine 16
3 buck flats wonder 19 PEI
3 grightmires pride dam15
Cherry-grape
3 sweet gold16
3 round res19
3 small oval19
3 red grape large19

Seeded in 12x6 flat