July 6, 2013 Timming and Seeding- garden update

Trimmed mugho pine in pool and by kitchen
Also dwarf viburnum under kitchen
Trimmed Pink Spirea by pool shed down to ground
Trimmed Yew in pool area
Trimmed suckers off Caragana stump

Seeded one four foot bed with 4 rows of Soybeans- bulk barn14
Turned over 6-7 ft in big bed, rototilled, seed 2 rows of Sugar Snap Peas

Sabbath
Dug a few beets yesterday
Cut 1st seeding of Kale hard- so Parsnips can grow

Second cut of New Zealand spinach
Sugar snap peas -pretty well done, still a few flowers, but not producing much

Strawberries - only a few small ones- pretty well done

Lettuce is getting bitter
Pulled spring spinach from Kids tall bed

Zuchini squash -yellow-is about 4 inches long-
FLowers on cucumber
Tomato fruit on Glamour from garden centre
Squash front and back is doing well

Garden views May 27/12

July 19/09 Church Picnic

Showers light in am. cloudy in afternoon
Got 1 yd screenings from Mtn Gd Ctr. Put in walkway dug out last week.
Replaced the 18by 18 patio stones
While there got 1 4pak dwarf Snaps one 4 pack marigold, 2 for $1.30. 2 4 pak of early cabbage 2 for.90
Planted snaps by caragana bed and one by maple stump.
Planted marigolds by caragan bed
Trimmed yews by garage door and silver euonymus on right side.

Picnic 64 people total, Snyders corn not ready until Tuesday this week.
Cut about 60% of swiss chard row, to give away
Ivy Angus and Mom Okimi picked beans.
Found 2 chipmunks caught in fan screen by harp bed. Claws caught as spokes get closer together. One was dead, Pat and Yvonne freed the one which was still alive. (monday, got rid of fan screen.)

July 10-12/09

July 10 dug out more walkway, spread excavated soil to back of annex where low, trimmed Andorra, spirea, tamarix Junipers, forsythia (some). Spread trimmings at back of house.
Found wasp nest on cedar chair. Sprayed with neem, seemed to kill wasp.
July 11/09 Juriansz reunion- showers in am, hail and shower in pm. .5 inch rain.
July 12 Yuccas are in full bloom
Sunday trimmed nest spruce, a bit of globe blue spruce.
sprayed driveway weeds,
Moved cushion mum from fence garden- too shady by rose of Sharon out to the harp garden
Dug volunteer garlics from here and there
Rosemary trimmed peashrub pods, spirea and yew in pool area.
Harvested the last broccoli, enormous head

June 4/06

June 4/06
Rosemary cut most of the lawn
Spread some slug & snail bait under mulberry, caragana bed, along back of house.
Planted Morning glory, under redbd by fence at near grass.
basil within grape hyacinth, basil one of each in bee box
some hibiscus in elderberry bed, next to forsythia by the shed,
Planted cucumber, row 1, zucchini row 8, squash in row 7 and row 9 and row out back
Rototilled aisle in vege garden.
Started laying interlock at barbeque and redoing rest
Replanted flowers in spinach bed
Sowed Lima beans in mulch at hydro pole bed
Split Miscanthus “Nippon” from front bed into 1) near potentilla/Weeping nootka 2) by redleaf rose in hydro pole bed
Planted coleus that were rooting (from May 21/06) into front bed under living room window
Seeded 4 1204 with Ornamental corn and 1 809 with corn

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

May 1-13/06

May 1/06 am fertilized 15-30-15, beeboxes, onions, root box, crimson sentry maple, yews, rhubarb
May 2/06 pool opened today, watered hammock lawn heavily
May 7/06 sunny warm
Cut lawn for first time, about 3 hrs, rosemary rode, I used push mower
Filled spinach bed with soil, seeded new Zealand spinach 1 pakg, 4-6 inches apart 3 rows
Mulched elderberry bed, caragana bed, redbud bed, ivory silk lilac beds
Spread sod by shed, ran over with tractor, seeded and watered.
May 11 put coleus, tomatoes, peppers etc by front door, so they wouldn’t dry out as much while we were away.
May 13/06 Justin graduation. Rainy from Thursday til all of next week