June 8th monday 2026

 

🌱  Garden Log 

Main Fraime- dug the planting strip- added manure

Cucumbers & Companions

• Cucumber varieties planted seedlings:
  • 1 × Armenian
  • Marketmore
  • Silver Slicer (white)
• Spacing: Burpless type planted 3 seeds per 3 holes (3‑seeds × 3 holes).
• Companion plants added between cucumbers:
  • Spanish white onion seedlings (from the other bed)
  • Sweet Alyssum purple
  • 3-4 Sweet Basil 

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Squash & Radish- Far Bed and A frame

• Radish in squash area:
  “Daikon radish in squash” → Radish seeds interplanted in the squash section.

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Purple Beans

• Two sections planted
• Total seeds: ~15 per section
• Sseed spacing: 5–6 inches apart
• Left one section empty to plant again in 3 weeks (succession planting)
• will plant 3rd section (east side) in 3-4 weeks
• Interplanted with Early Wonder Beets

• Lettuce & Radish Section

  • Third section planted with:
    • Grand Rapids lettuce
    • Red radishes

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• • Found gypsy moth caterpillar in the pre bonsai bed on Amur Maple

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 Curry tree

• Dug large curry tree into near 4x8 bed along with 3 seedlings from September which were put into 6" post
• Also dug in Carolina REaper, Purple Naga- a bit o f green, + 2 other peppers that overwintered.
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• POTATOes- add more manure/wood chip mix to cover seed pototoes- about 5 inche 
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June 7, 2026 A frame for Squash Gourds

 Jackie planted at walnut stump small glober watermelon. at last year's sunflower bed- sunflowers -2 rows in  centre and 1 row either side with Zinnia elegans. also planted ranunculus bulbs

ALso planted Curry Plant- Curry plant (Helichrysum italicum) is an aromatic perennial (USDA Zones 8-11) herb with silver-grey needle-shaped leaves that emit a heady curry scent. The plant grows 60-90 cm tall and approximately 50 cm wide and rewards you in summer with yellow flowers that contrast beautifully against the silver foliage.

Camping beds- erected a frame for squash and gourds- held together with zip ties and wood screws

about 16 ft long. posts 4 ft apart. so on one side 5 posts. Tomato were planted there last year on 24" centres. So each post is in between 2 tomato holes.
Jackie had bought a Cocozma -(OPA UPO) large- with 2 seedlings.
I had 2 boxes of Opa upo seedlings
a box of chinese bitter melon a box of Luffa
and a box of Trombocino

Added some Trombcino seeds about 4pp, in about 4 spots.

Added 2 purple allysum - pollinator, predator attacting flowers

Have to add some daikon seed

Down the midle of the poly- planted 4 pp seeds of  Hubbard Orange Squash and Acorn Squash- about 4-5 holes each. At the far end- plant 3pp grey Zucchini- 3 spots.

On the south side planted about 4-5 basil and 1 red shiso.

Plants got a dollop of 10-52-10 water soluble, some chicken manure pellets

Potatoes- filled the 4 bags with 4-5 inches fo manure/wood chips and some soil. Marco/Jackie put 4 potato chunks in each.

Have to fill 5-6 inches more