October 7 2025

 took almost all indoor plants in

and the rest on October 8

Still to come- some pepper plants

some lemon grass

take cuttings of Mandevilla tricolor

cutting from curry leaf

pepper cuttings- try softer wood

September 12, 2025

 

EGGPLANT Flea beetle control
used for 1 litre spray bottle
750 ml water, 250 ml rubbing alcohol, 1 tsp melaluca dish soap- Castil soap recommended
Sprayed as contact- by sunday no live ones seen

SUNDAY PUT    out new yellow insect trap sheets

seeded another row of lettuce leaf

seeded 4 rows of Bloomsdale spinach

planted 1 bed of Fitzki Garlic 6'by 7" total 112 garlic

August 13 seeded Zucchini, Carrots, Daikon

 Under Sugar snaps seed 2 spots with Zucchini- 4 seeds, 2pp

old garlic bed seeded Carrots

3 rows of Fothergill Nantes 2

4 rows of OSC 25 Chantenay Red

rest of bed with Daikon

3rd Garlic bed- seeded half with Daikon.

July 2025

 seeded beets, lettuce, brussel sprouts, gai lan, beets

After garlic was dug up from next tothe bean/snap pea frame

not sure of the date- 3rd week in July

Jackie's Dahlia Zinnias FLowers

 on sale packages

Sunday June 15, 2025

 sowed green and yellow beans between sheets of poly

Marco added beets to his bed

Jackie planted sunflowers in old raspberry bed, also planted sunflowers along the squash bed.

replaced a couple of sweet peppers that died with Black Eggplant

Big main bed- seeded one row of butternut squash.

seeded some orange hubbard squash and some buttercup squash (2020)

monday June 16- fertilized small cucumber bed, tomatoes- big bed and micro tomato bed

fertilized eggplant and sweet pepper beds, gourds

to do, squash, hot peppers, cucumber and pepper at frame, basil
 

June 12 and 13 2025

 June 12

added hot peppers to far bed

20 Habanero-Giant Red

Replaced with 51 Pink Cayenne June 12

55 Erotica

56 Mattapeno X Mutant

57 Mocha Swirl

62 Apple Crisp

64 Cajun Belle

66 Numex Suave Yellow

67 Peppa Peach Stripey

68 Thunder Cacho Brown

69 Thunder Mountain Longhorn

70 Txorixero Paprika

4 Demon Gold Drop

6 Ghost- Chocolate

8 Habanero-Black

9 Habanero-Chocolate

18 Purple Death

23 Sugar Rush Peach

Carolina Reaper

Planted large 2024 Carolina reaper in place of big Brown Rocoto

Planted cherry tomatoes in Asparagus bed
Black Strawberry 
Brad's Atomic Grape
Gull Lake Cocktail
Indigo Blue Beauty
Pinky Blast 

planted sweet potatoes in 4 bags
put the purple ones in 3 bags
planted Japanese white inside potatoes in 4th bag mix of mulch, compost, clay

June 13

LAY DOWN poly for squash

planted zucchini, trombocino, grey, black, gold

bought large beefsteak tomato, lemon boy tomato and Calif Wonder Yellow pepper at Connon Caledonia $20 (30%off)

Planted 3 California wonder pepper from Cayuga Home Hardware, mini peppers, Oda (really Smally) tangerine?

Aji Cuban

planted one cell of sugar pumpkin

planted curry leaf in pot

Seeded sunflower along edge

Planted rest of basil in between zucchini and pepper

seeded Butternut squash in old garlic poly

planted castor bean plants and seeded some more as well

SUNDAY JUNE 8 2025

 Sunday June 8, 2025 Garden Sunday

Thurs/Friday 

Put down new poly on frame

put down poly on tomato field

harvested some Red Radish, spring garlic, lemon balm, oregano for Stir fry

Bloomsdale Spinach is a flop

Planted cucumber left side of frame
Cucumber under frame
Planted June 8,10
Burpless (8 seeds
Carosello
Carosello
Armenian
Armenian
Suhyo
Salt Pepper
Silver Slicer
Straight Eight

Planted cucumber in bed

Cucumber raised bed

PLANTED June 8

Boothby

Lemon

Lemon

Marketmore

Planted 1 dozen sweet pepper in middle
101 Aji Dulce
102 Ajvarski
107 Big Red
105 Bell-Black 2016
115 Iko Iko
116 Lemon Dream
132 Violet Sparkle
131 Trinidad Perfume
129 Tangerine Dream
126 Purple Fog
124 Muraski Purple Sweet
123 Mini-Red

Planted basil in bed

also Jackie bought Sage, mini basil, Rosemary plnat,

Planted 4 Luffa at Walnut stump

Planted 2 gourd at ends of Sugar snap row

Kaleb re-seeded Okra in his bed, red and green

+ 3 rows of Purple Bok choi

Harvested a few Cilantro, some asparagus

Planted 3 rows x 21 tomato

2 rows to be with wire mesh and string

One row of dwarf/determinate tomatoes

Getting ready to plant

Sweet potatoes

Micro Tomatoes

Cherry tomatoes in asparagus bed corner

Rst of hot pepper in far bed

more sweets- mini peppers

castor beans

onions

may 19,20 25

 planted 3.25 rows of pepper in same as last year

Super Hots and Medium

Transplanted tomato from 7201 to 3.5" pots

transplanted Basil to 3801

Wed and THursday rain all day

May 18 garden

 Saturday, may 17- Fireworks Campfire Worship - 95+people

Friday- set up table, umbrellas, gathered wood from fallen pussy willow

Turned on fridge, cut lawn,

Sunday- seed green yellow bush beans Gold Wax, Tendergreen, next to Asparagus bed. Seeded green one side, yellow the other. 8 seeds per half row. 7 rows total

Marco - seeded beets and carrots Nantes coreless 5 rows each

Kaleb- transplanted 2x 1204 of okra, clemson and red and seeded 3or 4 more rows of 3 plants per row

Planted Eggplant in hot pepper bed of 2024- 18 holes- did not move poly

West row                             mid row         east row
Eggplant
2 Fingerling         3 Green Punjab 12 Round Mauve
3 Green Punjab         8 Mitoyo 11 Rosita
4 Italian Pink Bicolor 9 Petch Siam 14 Senshu Kinukawa Mizu
5 Jewel Amethyst 10 Ping Tung W 14 Senshu Kinukawa Mizu
6 Kamo         10 Ping Tung W 16 Thai Long Green
7 Kurume                                         16 Thai Long Green
                                                17 Black Beauty

Planted some sweet pepper in sweet pepper bed of 2024 have to make a list- removed poly added wheelbarrow and a half of compost and turned bed over

Sweet Pepper Bed
West row                 mid row east row
103 Alma                 113 Doux d'Espagne 122 Mini- Yellow
104 Bell- Sweet Chocolate         114 Etudia         128 Sweet Chocolate
108 Black Magic Schwarze Magie 118 Leysa Red        Home Hard Super Shepherd
110 Candy Cane Chocolate Cherry 119 Liebesapfel         Home Hard Super Shepherd
112 Doe Hill Sweet         120 Mini Chocolate Sweet Bell Home Hard Super Shepherd
111 Coral Bell                    121 Mini- Orange Home Hard Super Shepherd

balance of sweet peppers in jiffy 7 in tray with peat moss.

May 15 Verandah Poly taken down

 took down poly

moved Ports to gobo area

rest to under the lilac trees- cereus, easter cactus, fishbone, wandering jews, spider plant, schefflera, tamarind

Peppers and eggplants on deck

planted anuals in pots,= Vista purple salvia, Bonanza orange marigold, begonia, EZ rider Deep Salmon petunia

in bloom- alyssum basket of gold iberis, lamium spotted dead nettle, carpet phlox,

Dusty miller is doing well

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May 11, 2025

 Garden- took branches to hay field- from walnuts, rebuds culled last fall, fallen corkscrew willows, and pussy willow branches that broke

Veggies- rototilled second time, FIrst time was thursday

Spinach- nothing came up- re-seeded more Bloomsdale

Beets- seeded fill from previous , add new bed of seeds

Lettuce transplanted lettuce to new spacing

Rhubarb- Rosemary pick a bunch from back bed

Asparagus- been picking for about 1 week

Gladiolus- Jackie planted about 72 corms also planted Dahlia from 2024

Mushroom compost delivered last Monday- Jackie has been spreading some

Cukes and squash seedling are up

made bottle for keeping bird bath filled

hung up new Cobalt metal bird feeder

May 7, 2025 blooms

 

Bloom time May 4 2025

 

Apricots petals have fallen, Pear and Peach are in bloom, 

Apples starting to show colour

Weeping cherry is in bloom

Haskap (most westerly is bloomin)

Sour cherries- middle one blooms first,then the eastern one, and the western one still waiting.