Showing posts with label sunflower. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sunflower. Show all posts

Thursday, May 29, 2014

May 28/14 tasks

Planted some basil by pyramid and ramp
Seeded black sunflowers here and there
Planted a dozen castor beans from 1204's
Grass stitched trench
Propane 50% pool to 81 possibly due to solar which I turned on on the morning 

Friday, September 20, 2013

Turf King Sunflower from Instagram

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Sunday, October 21, 2012

Spa compost bin

Cut off asparagus
Cleaned up eggplant pepper tomato luff
And out into bin
Also added some grass clippings leaves
Cleaned up some Shasta castor bean sunflowers basil cilantro

Sunday, March 25, 2012

Birch island seeding March 25/12

Anchusa. Blue angel (10) at tip
Castor beans
Sunflowers
Did Not come up

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Seed Aug 3 4

Parsley curly collected
Parsley italian
Zuchini squash dollar store 3/$1.00
Black sunflower

Too late to plant- only a few parsley grew but too small to enjoy by fall.
Don;t remember zuchini even coming up.
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Saturday, May 29, 2010

Sunday, April 27, 2008

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

Saturday, April 12, 2008

April 12/08

April 12 more cuttings hemlock, gold cedar, hinoki cypress, mahonia, potentilla, dwf viburnum, honeysuckle, spread yew, hetz juniper, weigela, lilac preston, red leaf rose, shrub rose, burn bush, quince, privet, emerald cedar, alberta spruce, gold and silver euonymus
Put cuttings downstairs under lights
Sewed purple grass in date container –clear plastic. –under lights
Put acorns from garage into pot, put trumpet vine into pot- put them downstairs under lights
Outside planted the 2 emerald cedars that were uprooted from septic tank fiasco in far corner
Scattered black sunflower seed in beds

Sunday, May 28, 2006

May 28/06

May 28/06
Most of the cukes and squash were up.
Today warm and sunny, Wisteria at arbour is in bloom, pink flowers
Columbines in bloom, Blue iris in bloom, candytuft is finishing, beauty bush is starting to bud, Korean lilacs ready to bloom soon
Put 15-30-15 on vege garden, bee box, and annual planters (starting to see seedlings)
Planted castor beans in hydro pole bed, also some striped sunflower
Planted castor bean by climbing bean bed
Planted Striped sunflower and perennial sweet pea along fence by ivory silk lilac
Planted striped sunflower along shed between forsythia and mock orange
Planted sunflower and castor bean into birch bed
Planted peppers, various hots along ramp and mulched
Put assorted peppers into pot for Uncle Aubrey

Tuesday, May 23, 2006

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

Sunday, April 30, 2006

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.

Monday, April 17, 2006

April 15-17/2006

April 15/06 warm 17 C. Wore shorts
John says to get chipper started use carbeurator cleaner. Spray into the carberaotr, (take off air filter to access) Alcohol is cold and help burn off carbon
Rosemary trimmed forsythia to take to work
Cut up last of the winter evergreen bouquet and put clippings under telephone pole bed.
Ran rototiller through dead sod and some of the sod from the pipe trench.
Rototilled one row (row 6) of garden, planted Spanish onion sets, planted dutch sets(100 bulb package)
Planted in same row, 1204 of lettuce, 2 kinds, and 809 of sprouts, kale, red cabbage.
Turned over row 2 of garden and balance of row 4. Dug out garlics from garden (all except row 1) planted in locust planter under the area that is under the shader and doesn’t get water.
Seeded ANchusa blue angel in Locust bed along with annual sweet pea (knee high). Left room at end for tomato or other vegetable.
At end of locust planter planted golden swiss chard. Placed glass bee frame and plastic over part of the chard.
In bean bed, planted Linaria Fairy Bouquet in front of yews and in front of the patio stones. Package contains ¼ gram =3,000-4,000 seeds
Looks like some of the new Zealand spinach is growing
From Telephone pole bed, removed birch tree, mulched bed, using some newspaper,
Planted birch by lodense hedge bed.
Seeded sunflowers, some in goutweed, some between mahonia and yucca, by ramp near hicks yew, under some of the trees in front of shed and behind, along the back and side of the shed, some in last year’s corn bed.
Watered seeds, rhubarb,
Bee boxes spinach is just starting to come up, Radish is coming up. No sign of carrots
Root box at back,
Sprayed some roundup on lawn quack grass, some beds, some driveway,
Sprayed killex summer formula on dandelions, clover in lawn, near flagstone, near fence, near white pine.
April 17/06
Trimmed onions
Seed castor beans in black eye susan 809
Fertilized 15-30-15 on seedlings

Sunday, March 26, 2006

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

Friday, March 11, 2005

Thompson and Morgan Seed order 2005

Thompson and Morgan Seed order 2005






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