Mid January 2014 views of the house and surrounds

New boxes and late tillage radish sept 15/13

Took apart 2 by 4,6,8 from office
Bought 2 2by8 $7 and one 2by6 $4.50
Ended up with
2 bed 4 by 8
4 beds 4 by 4
And one on the end 4 by 37"
Most of the board were not treated so bought untreated spruce

Added soil and sand

Seeded with tillage radish even though general seed salesman says they should go in by sept 1st

Also planted some of grandpas hosts day lily and bleeding heart along front tree line, Under birches cedars


spruce, willow. Also one iris

Canada Day '12 Garden 1

centre driveway island

Notice Himalayan birch in island- in a few months the birch died from bronze birch borer

Daylily blooming beneath

Korean lilac std in bloom May 27/12

Korean standard lilac

Mugho pine below with birch on left, and wisteria on right

Birch Island May 15/12

White Birch & Lilac May 15/12

Birch island seeding March 25/12

Cosmos sensation (92)?
Near golden moneywort

Birch island seeding March 25/12

Anchusa. Blue angel (10) at tip
Castor beans
Sunflowers
Did Not come up

Gold Moneywort

Pulled some moneywort from along walk. Threw into centre Birch bed and covered with soil. Maybe will root?
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Allium bulbs planted

Planted Allium bulbs
2 in evening primrose by maple stump (pictured here)
2 by Mailbox at road
In centre birch island
In elderberry bed
Under living room window
Near annex walkway
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House Rear View march 2011

lilac, birch euonymus alberta spruce

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Dusty miller under the birch tree

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Magic carpet snap by birch/boxwood June 2/10

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April 19/09

April 19/09
Fixed back hose,
Found Killdeer nest on driveway
Sprayed roundup on beds, drive, veggie garden
Trimmed, wisteria potentilla by pool,tamarix by basement, dogwood by youngs birch
Emptied composter
Planted broccoli in bed, re- seeded rapini, from before- looks like cold killed it.
Sewed, spargo spinach in another bee box
Dug mulberry from front bed planted past Chinese elm, dug some redbud put under hawthorn along road
Outside transplanted pansy to 1204 flats,
Moved potentilla from arbour bed to corn boil bed.
Grackles- do I have them on the run?
2 canada geese landed on the roof.
Fertilized trees with wet fertilizer- used about 3-4 bags
Started up rototiller

Inside- transplanted 1204 tomato to 4” pots, also some pepper and eggplant
2008 mini pepper seed didn’t grow.
Transplanted some eggplants, pepper to 1204,
Trransplanted delphinium to 1204,
Seeded more basil

May 18-21/06

May 18 put tomatoes, peppers, eggplants outside under verandah
Put aloe, portulacaria, citrus outside
Friday may 19, put papers and clipping in last garden box
May 22/06 pick a bit of leaf lettuce for salad
May 21/06, cool, windy
Put figs outside under verandah
Filled last garden box with soil,
Dug out chives from back of house near chimney landing put some in squash holes, rest by front near juniper on roadside, planted Indian corn here
Filled squash holes with triple mix
Raked lawn as chris cut on wed for the first time
Put clippings under forsythia by shed
Pruned forsythia hard
Chipped some of the clippings
Planted inidan corn in shed bed, also in hydro bed in mulch and also by caragana bed by new birch tree.
Planted a few of the multiplier onions in garden box 1

Rototilled garden
Planted one row of swiss chard, row 4 planted cilantro as markers
half row of lettuce, row 2
¾ row of climbing beans row 5
Planted spinach, carrots and gold beets in garden box 1. filled in beets and carrots in missing rows.
Seeded Marketmore cucumber 3pp 2 -809
Seeded zucchini mixed 1-809 1pp
Seeded cantaloupe 1-1204, 3pp
Seeded butternut 2-1204 3pp
Seeded Uchiki Kuri squash- orange 10 seeds in pkg in 1-1204, 2pp and 3pp
Trimmed coleus in boxes back, put cuttings into soil in a plastic bag