April 28/14 Snyder first corn seeding

Ears of corn?

Snyders corn

Snyder corn planting April 27/13

April 19/12 Snyder's corn planting

July 16/09

Mosquito spray, Church picnic this weekend, 5 days til Snyder's Sweet Corn
Touch of rain overnight

April 26-27/08

April 26th dave Jarvis delivered 6 yd load topsoil to back by composter
APril 27th nice day
- filled up garden boxes with topsoil
- planted lettuce that was sown inside
- sowed romaine lettuce, rapini
- sowed corn at chimney
- planted 3 yews under locust in box (filled with topsoil)
- planted blue rug out front
- trimmed redbud, dead branches
- redbud by Austrian pine has middle with large section no flower buds?
- Sowed sunflower black all around
- Potted a dozen maple seedlings from under locust into 4” pots
- Sowed 1 zuchini in garden box under plastic (may 18 just barely up)
- Grackles making nest- some with eggs

April 20/08

April 20/08- chiondoxa blooming in front and in birch bed.Chinese dogwoodl in bloom, forsythia in bud,
Started big rototiller, couldn’t keep it going
Planted copra, candy, red wing, star onions, leeks, balance of dutch sets, planted out rapini, planted broccoli and collards, planted some Detroit red beets,
Unstrung harp,
moved bee boxes to side of deck, dug out rest of septic tank, moved some gr cover under redbud, moved 2 daffodils to between fence and grasses
Trimmed mulberry a bit, trimmed iberis candytuft back- lot of winterkill,, trimmed grasses
Planted Indian corn at corner of lawn

June 5,6,7/06

June 5/06
Bought Jack O’lantern pumpkin from Country depot 33 cents garden corner. Planted 1-1204 2 per cell.
Bought 1204 of Eggplant- Classic
Bought a hoe from RONA

June 6/06 hoed front garden,
Saw ruby throated hummingbird at breakfast, put out feeder, saw him at dusk also
Planted purple annual grass by hydro pole, in square planter, by purple basil
Installed interlock at bbq and on path to lawn.
Installed brick paving stones around posts of pergola and started at hammock cover.
Put seeded ornamental corn (june 4) outside. Starting to sprout.
Indian strawberry popcorn hasn’t come up at all. Seeded may 22.

June 7/06
Planted eggplant
Planted some Ornamental Corn in pots

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 22-23/06

May 22/06
Temperature cool, cloudy, no wind
applied wet tk fertilizer to trees along road, bush and by railway
planted a corkscrew willow by cedars along 3rd line
Seeded patio pots 7 with strawberry popcorn,
Seeded 2 patio pots with willows growing,Seeded 1- white square planter
morning glory at 6 and 12 o’clock, Sanvitalia-Creeping Zinnia & Zinnia-Persian carpet one either sider
transplanted boxwood (2) and 5 spruce from 3 & 4” pots to 1-2 gallon pots
Fertilized vege garden with sustane 4-2-4

John came to weed spray lawn, just started to spit an hour after.
Behind house, rototilled from A/C to corner, and under verandah corner
Seeded castor bean, black sunflower, Fennel, California poppy, Malva
Planted 1 castor bean, and 4 pots malva
Used sod from 24by30 to raise bed edge
Added some corn
Seeded sunflower under verandah where doesn’t rain, seeded Parsley at edge

Planted sweet pepper, hot pepper, tomato and eggplant in vege box #4
Planted pepper, eggplant, tomato in row 3
Planted hot peppers in row 2

Set 24by 30 sidewalk slabs over drain pipe

Hydro is out, went to darrels for supper
Low of 3 degrees overnight. Covered pepper, tomato, eggplant. Frost next morning
May 23, low of 42, covered plants again. No frost, but the one last night nipped some peppers and eggplants
Covered couple of tomatoes with beebox hot house

Bought 4 boxes pepper, 2 red bell, one yellow bell, one red pimento

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

April 23-28/2006

April 23
Apricot has loads of blooms
Rainy day
Fertilized shrub beds from shed to pool area
Still to do = spruce at end of lawn, fruit trees and front trees, windbreak row.

April 27th
Bee boxes spinach is just starting to come up but spotty, Radish is up. Carrots are up
sowed more spinach in bee box, sowed some lettuce mix in bee box
Moved glass cover from swiss chard to over sweet peas. Swiss chard under was up.

April 28 spread out second load of dead sod from Bisnauth by hammock, ran over to flatten with tractor
Planted one row of ornamental corn by shed corner bed, some behind shed, some by ??
Replanted some onion sets that had been uprooted
Bee boxes spinach is just starting to come up, Radish is coming up. No sign of carrots

Thompson and Morgan Seed order 2005

Thompson and Morgan Seed order 2005

T& M						start early	where
pg	name	item #	price	seeds
174	Pepper Firecracker	100	2.95	30			gdn
186	perpetual spinach	697	2.25	250			sunfl patch
163	Jersy Cabbage-walking stick	779	2.95	45			pots
54	Musa Lasiocarpa	808	7.45	4			pots
15	Sunflower Bees knees	3044	2.95	25	3.45		pots
11	Calif Poppy Strawberry Fields	6260	2.95	150			pots
88	Zea Mays"Quadricolor"	7060	2.95	50			gazebo
11	Larkspur Gentian blue	7239	2.95	100			mulberry
112	Oenothera Speciosa Pink petticoats	8881	1.95	100			among beds
8	Rudbeckia Cherokee Sunset	7357a	0	50			pots
			29.35