April 13, 2025 spinach and rapini sowed

 sowed 3 rows rapini

filled in bloomsdale spinach in bed that was sown last fall

April 10, 2022 Sunday Evening seeding

In vinyl long bed- (2021 Zuchini)

Starting from East

In between rows North side Cherry Belle Radish Dam20

Beet German Lutz Aimers22

Lettuce Lollo Rosso MarksChoice19(home hardware)

Beet Detroit Supreme Dam21
Spinach Bloomsdale Dark Green Dam18
Beets Crosby's Egyptian Fothergill22
Spinach Speedy Dam19 
Carrot Rainbow OSC22

Lettuce Cimmaron Dam19
Spinach Red Kitten Hybrid Dam19 (3/4 row) + Curry leaf radish? Mustard?
Beet Early Wonder OSC21
Blank
Carrot Royal Chantenay WestCoast22
Asian Greens Mix 21( mix of Hiroshima-na, Edible Nanaha-na, Komatsu-na) from Watanabe
Carrot Berlicummer II Dam21
Rapini Sorrento Dam21

 

Gold Chard- Two Rows- planted densely= pick for baby greens

Rainbow Chard FotherGill22

Pak Choi- Collected

6 Shogoin Daikon 

2 small rows Mitsuba

6-8 Momo no Suke turnip for Salad

8-10 Shungiku Chrysanthemum

10-12 Radicchio Red Treviso 22

Bed by frame (next to Music Garlic)

4 rows Snap Peas Sugar Lace II Aimers21 planted 4 rows about 14 " apart 20 peas per row, has a mulch on top

April 18, 2022= Asian green mix have germinated.

Seeding March 22, 2020

in bed next to the Asparagus1 bed

had pepper last year

Loosed soil with fork, add soil from gobo bed and sweet potato bed (approx 1-2")

from Asparagus going west

3 rows of Rapini 2012

1 row WestCoast19 Beet BLend

1 row of MarksChoice19 Lollo Rossa Lettuce

1 row of Dam18 Early Wonder Beets

1 row Dam19 Spinach Speedy

1 row Dam19 Carrot Bolero

1 row WestCoast18 Merlot Lettuce

1 row Dam19 Swiss Chard Bright Lights

1 row Dam19 Lettuce Cimmaron and Lettuce Edox

seeded Dam20 Cherry Belle Radish between rows

Aug 16 seeded some

Seeding April 21/19

from western end - 1 row each

WestCoast18 Lettuce Merlot Loose Leaf (purple) 400 seeds  per pack

dam19 Bright Lights Swiss Chard + OSC18 Bright Lights

Dam18 Carrots Mokum Hybrid

Dam19 Lettuce Cimmaron (reddish Romaine) 1400 seeds per packet

WestCoast19 Carrot Danvers

OSC17 PakChoi Mei Qing Choi Hybrid

WestCoast19 Beet Blend

Dam18 Spinach Bloomsdale Dark Green

Dam18 Beet Early Wonder

Dam19 Lettuce Edox MI red hybrid with only 100 seeds vs 400 or 1400 seeds

Emanuele17 Lettuce Mervagilia Delle 4 Stagioni

Radish between

Dam18 Radish Easter Egg mix 200-250 seeds

WestCoast19 Radish Cherriette 100 seeds

Rhubarb edge

Seeded Dam18 spinach and Emanuele Larosa17 Meraviglia Delle 4 Stagioni lettuce (Wonder of the 4 Seasons) along edge of rhubarb bed

Also plates some stray garlic cloves

Lettuce spinach radish seeded July 2018

WestCoast18 Lettuce Merlot loose leaf purple
Emanuele Larosa17 Meraviglia Delle 4 Stagioni lettuce (Wonder of the 4 Seasons)
Tillage Radish
Dam18 Blooomsdale Dark Green Spinach
Dam18 Lettuce Pomegranate Crunch
ReneeGarden17 Ruby Gem Romaine

Tall bed

2rows of gobo (burdock root) seeds from japan 2 varieties
Planted about 25-28 seeds per row thin to 4" apart with rows 28" (70cm) apart

Added row of lettuce Emanuele Larosa17 Meraviglia Delle 4 Stagioni lettuce (Wonder of the 4 Seasons)
3 rows spinach bloomsdale Dam18
1 row carrots Mokum hybrid Dam18
A few Easter egg radish Dam18

March 25/18 seeding outdoors

One bed near poplar woodpile
Seeded
OSC17 beets early wonder
OSC17 spinach bloomsdale long standing
OSC13 Endive broad leaves Batavian (chicory)
Collected16 curly parsley
Emanuele Larosa17 Meraviglia Delle 4 Stagioni lettuce (Wonder of the 4 Seasons)
Zappa17 chicory Rossa di Verona

Covered some with Magic Mix, some peat moss, some black soil

April 21/18 nothing starting to germinate

Carrots spinach lettuce

Two rows McKenzie16 carrot scarlet Nantes
Two rows OSC17 spinach bloomsdale
1 row Dam13 lettuce red sails

New seeding July 19 Mixed beets, carrots

From garlic bed emptied
Added wheelbarrow black loam
Seeded
Beets aimer16
Spinach dam14 - was too old very few came up
Radish 2016
Carrot Mckenzie16
Rutabaga Dam14
Lettuce dam13
Rapini from in garden- spring plants gone to seed

Some status updates

Earlliest bed planted in March

Beets, spinach, lettuce growing 

also cut a handful of Rapini

Garlic progress

Sugar snaps April 16/2016

Seeded Sugar Snap Peas- a climbing variety OSC16

Where climbing beans grew last year

Also seeded carrots beets lettuce arugula spinach and Swiss chard

Seeded garden

With beets Dam15 Early Wonder
spinach space Dam14
lettuce Dam13 Dixter- (Red Romaine)
lettuce Red Sails Dam13
carrots American15 Chantenay
Rapini 2012 and also in a second bed

radish GardenCorner12 Red Belle in between

weeded some garlic beds and spread shredded paper

Potato harvest spinach sowing sept 14/14

Harvested potatoes got about 12 litres worth
More than ten pounds likely 12

Sowed giant winter spinach Dam13
Three close rows in about one third of bed










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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

May 25/14 seeding

Seeded 9 rows

row 1- half Red Romaine lettuce, half red sails lettuce  both dAM14

row 2 gold swiss chard dam14

row 3 red russian kale Dan14

row 4 half scarlet Nantes, Half Dam Berlicummer

Row 5 Collected Rapini Only 3 plants came up

row 6 Arugula Dragons' tongue dam 14

row 7 choi sum- moulin roughe hybrid dam14

row 8 spinach space hybrid

row 9 beets detroit dark red

July 6, 2014
Arugula never came up
Bok choy only 3 plants came lup

May 19/14 tasks

Moved mini greenhouse from spinach beet bed to new bed to cover eggplant pepper and tomato

Rototill end some but may have seized machine

Did get little honda tiller going

Fixed the old New Zealand spinach bed planted 3 kinds of red lettuce

Phillip cut lawn
And did some trimming

Matthew found a tick

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May 11/14 Mother's Day tasks

Phillip came to cut
Lawn Friday but started to rain
Came today to do first mowing
For both hand mowers started

Picked another good crop of asparagus
With Alejandra and Raquel seeded a 4 x4 box with spinach (2 rows) Swiss chard carrots beets and 8 Spanish onion plants

Rototill end main garden 3 times
Twice diagonal and once vertical til gas ran out

Should start some castor beams and zucchini cucumbers




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April 9/14 evening

Warmish day
Bed row one first one at back
Last year potatoes
South to north
Row Beets Detroit dark red (garden corner 12)
Green onion (12) collected
Row 3 half carrot scarlet Nantes (garden corner 12)
Half row carrot berlicummer dam 13
Row 4&6 spinach space dam 13- about 76 seeds per row
Row 5 Swiss chard eldorado gold dam 14 -40 seeds
Covered with peat moss
Plan to put greenhouse over for a while