Thursday, October 10, 2024

another garlic bed

Hunter the second bed of garlic. Use the plastic that held the bush beans this spring summer. Total of 14x7 equals 98 garlic. Used all Fitzki

Saturday, October 5, 2024

Hot Peppers Potted OCt 4, 2024

 dug and potted 5 hot peppers- into 6 " pots - dwarf pa=lants
Arlecchino
White Biquhino
Calico Has Purple leaves with white variegations
Variegated Cascabella which is not variegated
Pot Black









Thursday, October 3, 2024

October 2,3 2024 Garlic planted Raised Bed

 Garlic planted in 2 raised beds- replaced rotting side boards

Dug the bed deep, turned over.

Planted garlic at 7x6 spacing

per bed 14 rows 7" apart, 8 cloves per row at 6" apart
used the 48" black landscape fabric
watered
Fertilized with


112 garlic per 4x8 bed = 224 garlic
One bed 112 Fitzki Porcelain garlic
Second bed-
2 rows German White hardneck
2 rows Music Porcelain
2 rows Russian Red
1 row Duganski
1 row Rose de Latrec
2 rows Transylvania Softneck
2 Rows Korean Red
2 Rows Japanese


Thursday, September 26, 2024

SEPT 25, 2024

 stuck a tray of variegated cuttings from FLorida HB ($18 USD)

planted seeds of Miracle Plant from Orville Parchment
soaked first for a day, into 6" pot- they like acid soil
**Synsepalum dulcificum**, commonly known as the **miracle fruit** or **miracle berry*







Monday, August 5, 2024

august 4,5 2024

 Dug  garlic in raised bed

dug late, most of them had the skin coming off

Washed and froze


Monday Aug 5, turned over south bed

Planted Oregon Sugar Pod II snow peas. 2 peas five inches apart


Sunday, July 21, 2024

New Cactus and New Bed July 2024

 3 rows

1st:  Orange Glory, white crystal tide, blank spot, humifusa fragilis, bronze beauty.(Miniature) 

Second row:  red gold, pale yellow, Santa Fe cholla, black cat (bonus), red gem (Anna). 

Third row: prairie fire, roti la pink, magenta, Alberta sunset (miniature), pony (Anna)







Thursday, July 18, 2024

July 17 2024 garden

Dug a few rose garlic wet soil

Weeded gobo bed no gobo
Transplanted some beet seedling
Seeded carrots- rainbow, Danvers Half Long, Last of Berlicummer Dam21

Added soybeans to soybean bed
Radish stem inhibit germination??

Transplanted white flowered Campanula  to ash stump bed

Mulch beans with corn stalks  
Planted more beans. put rest of Jade in with Gold Wax beans
One row of tendergreen and one row of Gold Wax

Seeded Allium from July 2023 cemetery visit to next to asparagus bed

July 19 - put willow limbs on tomato rope to hold them up






Monday, July 1, 2024

June 28, 2024

 Friday treated for Mosq

4 by 10 litre tanks with mister


started to dig some Thai Garlic

Sunday Morning June 30

Planted Basil, thai basi, Opal Basil, Weeded and mulched, 
Jackie cut down the lettuce
Where the daikon was planted, turned over
Planted Bulk Barn Soybeans for edamame.

July 1
Weeded asparagus beds, and mulched.

Planted volunteer Peppers from Spanish onion bed- Mystery Peppers
In hot pepper bed - replaced White Habanero
In tomato bed replaced- 50 Tomatillo, 131 italian sweet pepper, 19 green zebra tomato, 1 banana toes tomato, 125 Liebesapfel pepper


Wednesday, June 19, 2024

June 19 2024

 Hot muggy

Sunday Jackie Kevin put up wire mesh for tomatoes- removed T stakes from last years bed

Today Rototilled the old tomato bed


Took softwood cutting of clematis on right side of Last Rays Deep purple
Also of Double French Lilac Purple 


Sowed tendergreen bean where Jade Beans did not sprout (only 1 bean grew)



In Big bed sowed 2 yellow beans with 1 Jade bean about 6 ft (double row)


Sugar Snap Peas in flower almost ready to pick




Sunday, June 16, 2024

Sunday June 16, 2024

 Added Daikon Radish seeds to cukes, squash, Zucchini

Planted purple sweet potato into bags- 2 cut potato pieces in each. soil mix of topsoil, and mulch.






seeded 2 kinds of Japanese gobo (2018) not very many of the salad gobo- Short one #2 45 cm
#1 is 75 cm long opened new pkg of seed

In same bed, seeded Lutz beets, golden beets, Lettuce and crosby's egyptian beets
Lettuce, Red romaine, mix of reds, Prizehead, and Marvel 4 season 2024

Monday planted unknown cherry tomato under bonsai Alberta/mulberry
Planted 2 dwarf Ornamental peppers in planters.
stuck wandering jew x4 in front door sign pot


Friday, June 14, 2024

June14, 2024 fertilization

at school

Paul workbench, cut to lower height

Yellow table needs new top

BOTH 6 pieces wide


Fertiliized 1 tablespoon each
Hot Peppers by south including Ballet Datura
Hot pepper bed
Sweet Pepper Bed
Eggplant bed
Tomato field incl pepper
Zucchini Squash Row,
Cucumber row
Cherry Tomato row
Basil plants
Squash out front


Transplanted Basil to 3 1/4 sq pots 9 total

June 12- Dug Virginia creeper and Pear tree from Church


 

Friday, June 7, 2024

JUNE 7, 2024

PLANTED - in eggplant bed- 1 shooting star striped in middle row where mitoyo died
planted 1 black beauty and 3 shooting star striped eggplant in hot pepper bed- removed 2 ornamental dwf pepper
planted Beefmaster and Jetstar tomato in tomato bed.

Recieved Hoya from Ebay potted up Hoya pubicalyx ~ a starter plant C $9.99 shipping $6



Planted leeks in onion bed 5 larger ones and 6 smaller





sold 22lb of garlic scapes  20@$5


Sugar snap progress


June 9-11 trimmed Portulacaria - repotted, took cuttings

Transplanted Curry plant to 8" pot

Wednesday, June 5, 2024

June 5, 2024

 Bought from Walters Greenhouse in Paris/Brantford

box of 4 Eggplant Shooting Stars Striped 
2 cell pak white lobelia
3 cell pak red salvia
2 cel pak coleus
Chicken manure package fruit/flower

Potted eggplant to 4 inch pot
Planted salvia, coleus, lobelia to planters by deck
will plant leeks in onion bed

2 packs of Oriental Red Poppy from HomecHardware

Walgraeve R & M Greenhouses & Garden Centre

3 1/4" cell pak- 
2 portulaca
1 Black Beauty eggplant
1 Beefmaster tomato
1 Jetstar tomato
1 leek

Portulaca- split and put in planter by stone bench
potted eggplant, tomato to 4" pots
added blood meal and chicken fert to discourage squirels

Tuesday, June 4, 2024

June 4, 2024

 Seeded Zinnia, 

Lovage
Chinese Houses
Red Coneflower
Coleus from Sabrina
Zinnia Giant -Mixed
Zinnia 2016