Pelleted coleus seed by 3 yews under locust

 

Coleus 2 pkgs Rainbow Mix 60 pelleted seed (92)

Also sprinkled 1992 parsley seed in this area where parsley is already growing.
nothing grew, although there was some parsley near by so hard to tell on parsley

Coleus white impatiens

Planted impatiens under the locust

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April 5, 2009 Sunday

April 5/09 Greg’s bday, Kev/Jack/al, fina/Franco, Amy, Dave greg, gpa here for brunch
Trimmed spirea from garage side front, took out all large stems
Trimmed back mahonia by front porch back hard, stuck some stems in soil to see if will root
cut yew back along front edge to allow rockery stone to show
Trimmed hydrangea Annabelle back and hydrangea ivy . stuck some cuttings in soil to see if will root
Planted Spanish onion and dutch sets about 10 per row in box, seeded some broccoli in between
Filled one bee box by deck, Seeded leaf lettuce,
Rapini started to come up, spinach just starting,
Elephant garlic looks squishy? Did it survive winter.?
Good crop of peppers/eggplant starting
Coleus starting to come up
Grass and fibrous begonias- no sign of germination
Put pansy, onions from jan seeding, lettuce and broccoli out side to harden of
Cut pussy willow stems.
Brought figs out from garage- stems look dry, bud starting to get green??

March 15/09 Seeding

March 15
Seedling tray left to right
Peppers (mostly 2pp)-34 calif wonder pepper(08), 21 mini yellow (HI07), 21 red mini pepper HI07, 8 orange mini (08), 6 red mini(08), 10 mix mini (08),
Eggplant 40 Vittoria, 1pp except 2pp at edges, 40 millenium, 10 antigua (2pp)
Last row cayenne- 5 from 05 3pp, 5 from 08 2pp.

Seeded rest of Copra, Redwing, Utah Spanish part of leeks, whole pkg super star white onion
Seeded collected coleus seed
Seed Polfast tomato in 1204 1pp
Seeded broccoli 3pp in 1204
Seeded lettuce in 5by5 open tray
Seeded hibiscus from Hawaii in yogurt pot

April 12/08 part 2

Box garden, prepared #1 for onions
#2- planted bloomsdale spinach between Detroit red beets, , rainbow carrots, beets cylindra
Sewed icicle radish between ruby red chard
Planted rapini, green onions, with buttercrunch lettuce (1/2 row) and 1.5 rows prizehead.
Sewed sugar snap peas in harp garden

Planted from Hwy 56 guy, emerald cedars by pole garden, white pine in front of shed, white pine back of shed, planted balsam fir by Chinese elm,
Moved lilacs from under hawthorn by road,
Took green euonymus that was rooted from under snowballs and put under the back deck
arbor bed – trimmed cedars by, trimmed euonymus, cleaned up dogwoods, trimmed wisteria
Trimmed cedars by firepot,
Transplanted coleus into 1204, about4-5 per cell, put under lights downstairs.

March 16/08 seed tray

March 16/08 seed tray
20 dusky eggplant
20California wonder 2 pp
7 Charming Eggplant
12 Farmers’ Long Eggplant
13 Asian Bride Eggplant
16 Admiral pepper yellow 1pp
2 ornamental mini pepper hot 3pp
10 red mini pepper 2pp
10 yello mini pepper 2pp
10Cayenne 2pp
5 Firecracker 3pp
10 Rapini 2pp
5 collards 2pp
20 California wonder 2 pp
10 broccoli 2pp
20 collected sml basil
3 okra
4 hollyhock 2pp
2 tomato polfast

yogurt
1 pepper mint
1 karge basil
2 ri=ose of Sharon
2 arabis
1 mushroom petunia collected from U Ralph and HGSC
1 mushroom coleus rainbow

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 28/06 part 2

Dug a cedar from near flagstone and potted it
Dug 2 tomatoes from by ramp and potted- sweet millions?
Planted Sunshine impatiens HB by ramp, lavenders growing by existing lavender by post
Planted the citrus plants into garden, by emerald cedar pair, under ivory silk lilac bed
Planted walking stick kale and castor bean by fence gap
Planted annual sweet pea plants that were started inside under locust
Planted coleus under mulberry
Mulched by ramp, west side of arbour, under mulberry
Planted 4 box of pepper in garden
Put Brown 16by16 patios by wall (6)
Dug blue grass from fence gap, transplanted to front by roadway
Harvested spinach, mixed salad, some leaf lettuce
White radishes starting to go to seed?
Lots of wasps under verandah roof just starting
Moved 3 aloes outside under verandah
Took baby star romaine lettuce to mom’s garden and planted
Seeded 2- 1204 with cantaloupe

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

March 2006

March 6/06
Planted 809 hibiscus rose mallow
Mushroom 801 grass
Parsley 1204
Basil 1204
March 14/06
200 seedling tray (10 per row)
1- row-Planted Brandywine tomato-
5- calif wonder pepper
3- dusky eggplant
2- fairy tale eggplant
1- pepper west Indian
1- Surinam pepper
2- firecracker pepper
2- ornamental dwf pepper
1-cayenne pepper
1- sweet pea annual
1- sweet pea perennial
Lettuce- 4pp 2 romaine, 2 simpson
Progress- onions up, cilantro up, kale etc up
Original peppers are up
Grass- very few up
Black eye susan not up at all

March 19 trimmed onion
March 26/0Sweet peas just starting, tomatioes starting
Seeded 3pp walking stick kale into 1204
Seeded castor beans into black eye susan 809 that didn’t come up at all.
Transplanted coleus (40 total plants)

Sunny +5 C.
Cleaned up sunflower stalks, castor bean, trimmed grass by entry fence,
Planted sugar maple by entrance, moved serviceberry from front flower bed- 1 to back of shed, 2 to edge of bush, moved wild dogwood to end of shed, moved 1 clump of daylily to bush near new serviceberry.
Trimmed- elderberry, lower branches of silver maple at end of septic,
Turned over one raised bed, turned old bean row, turned ½ row old pepper and eggplant
Trimmed hicks yew that winter burned in bean shelter bed.
Trimmed mulberry – lower tips mainly
Seeded parsley by mahonia in birch bed
Seeded Romaine, salad mix, and simpson lettuce in one bee box, covered with glass/plastic
Trimmed Anthony waterer spirea down to ground in the caragana bed