Seeding from Alberta and fruit

 seeded some fruit pits- peaches, cherries, plums, prunes, apples

seeded alberta collection

Mountain ash about 2 rows with 50 fruit in each

Bearberry fruit from Saturday excursion to park along with some prunes

Maple,  Red leaf crab (photo Sept 7, 2022

 

 

 

Schubert cherry from street trees, 

 

Sept 29/14 tasks

Cleaned up tomatoes -pulled vines and put in compost
Picked second patch - rest of it - of soybeans.
The third patching soybeans- pods are there but not filled. Hopefully will still have time to grow.
Picked green beans - tossed plants into compost- got two 8 litre pails - even though some are large- this variety is still tender.
Second planting- of beans- almost no beans- got the first flush couple of weeks ago- if season was longer would get another picking-
The two pails come of the second flush of flowers and beans of the first planting,
Rosemary juiced a bunch of tomatoes into ziplock bags for freezing

Coneflower echinacea - picked a half dozen seed heads and scattered the seeds here and there- at Shasta daisy row in front- under maple on east side of drive- new beds at back - by rose bed/black eye Susan
Scattered cleome seed
Scattered viburnum, hicks yew, Amur maple seeds at log berm and under a couple of willows, few redbuds
Planted two clumps of
Miscanthus to front near hawthorns and a walnut.
Watered garden and transplanted oak and redbuds

Tidied up pool shed
Put chairs in shed
Moved umbrellas to big shed in 45 gal drum





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Today's tasks Oct 8/12

Planted some rooted willow various spots
Trimmed hawthorns along front road to allow lilacs to grow better
Planted another boxwood under the oak tree. In doing so dig up the daffodils bunch. Planted daffodils along front at road
Planted the silver maple seedlings at far end along road


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Canada Day '12 Garden 3

daisies highlight the eastern border spruce, cedar and silver maples along the background

elderberry branches in left foreground

Canada Day '12 Garden 4

the purple row, purple smoke bush in front of 2 crimson king maples along north side of driveway

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

Garden view across lawn

view in line of summer equinox line

redbud on right, maples in background and spruce

Silver Maple keys

Japanese Maple Alberta Spruce May 15/12

Crimson King Maple May 15/12

May 6/12 Other Tasks

Dug 3 maples from rose of sharon/shrub rose bed and planted along fence line near the big hole dug near railway tracks.
Planted one beside transplanted mulberry from last fall

fertilized vege garden with 20-20-20 -6 Tbsp per 5 gal pail

Rototiller- filled with HD oil in engine-
put some compost from big compost pallet bin into bed for pepper/eggplant bed

Rototilled squash bed- one pass

Misc tasks April 29/12

Transplanted three clumps of Trillium
Transplanted some silver maple to front Roadside under walnut tree
Transplanted routed pussy willow too far end of field
Transplanted couple of clumps of lilacs from by concrete fdns to the far end of the field

Started to rototill but needs a fan.belt
lawnmower needed a boost

Started working on conduit greenhouse

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Apr 6/12 tasks done

Vegetation control driveway
Brush burned incl last yrs pile by Roschman car and apple tree trimmings
Stuck some pussy willow cuttings by rr track choke cherry
Transplanted 4 ft silver maple from by spruce behind shed to new row
Trimmed down hibiscus behind shed
Trimmed down hibiscus by septic pyramid
Dug about 6 pieces of miscanthus grass out - moved to a new bed.

Where is the Season? March 11/2012

Sun nov 13/11 Tasks done

Cut lawn
Gathered lvs into t-stkes and green netting
Cut down asparagus
Cleaned up some miscamthus
T staked. Driveway
T staked new. Cedars at silver maple row.
T staked new front plantings- red buds, spirea
Spreadand leveled propane line trench
Softneck garlics R quite tall
Hardnecks spread out more

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2 Ash planted

Cut down poor maple at bck of master bedrom. Planted 2 4" potted ash.
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Silver MapLe Row March 2011

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Pussy Willow Cut by Todd March 2011

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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 29/30/2006

April 29 s
Sowed Malva in peat pot 1 row of 5 2pp
Sowed Morning glory peat pot 1 row of 5 3 pp
Transplanted tomatoes from 200 seedling tray, into one 809, transplanted into empty 200’s
Transplanted eggplant dusky from 200 tray into 1 peat pot tray of 10, transplanted into empty 200’s
Transplanted sweet peas into paper mache pot from 200 tray, set out in morning to harden off
Sowed 809 of striped sunflower from bulk barn parrot mix 2pp.
Daffodils blooming, dwarf tulips in well bed budding. Redbuds are budding.
Birch male flower are in full pollen
April 30/06 wheelbarrowed topsoil to hammock area, spread thin layer, seeded, and put sprinkler on
Built 2 veggie beds 4by 8 by 10” high, pressure treated, filled near bed with paper, some soil from BBQ patio, some dead sod, and couple wheelbarrows of triple mix.
Built BBQ patio with 2 by 6’s to make it level, ends up with about a 3” drop, moved some stone dust into bed
Rototilled a couple of turned over rows. The dry chunks don’t break up easily, I wonder if we should turn over and rototill the same day as the chunks will be somewhat moist. I think earlier it was too wet, but now it may be okay.
Planted Onion-copra, onion- candy, onion red and leeks. Filled one veggie bed. Planted rest in onion row. Extra leeks into root bed and some by the cole crops
Watered veggie garden
Planted Crimson Sentry Maple in climbing bean bed.
Mulched some more.