Showing posts with label sweet pea. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sweet pea. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Seeded by emerald cedar dead trunks

Seeds from RBG Aug 25/07
Sweet pea
Purple cleome

nothing came up

Sunday, March 28, 2010

Sweet Pea fence

Seeded 8 Sweet Peas seeds from 2005 along fence.

Sunday, May 28, 2006

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 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

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.

Friday, April 28, 2006

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

Sunday, April 9, 2006

April 2, 9/06

April 2/06
Trimmed onions,
Lots of tomatoes, peppers up, sweet pea up
Outside
Bee box planted one box Bloomsdale spinach,
One box with carrots and white radish
Back root box planted
Bloomsdale spinach
Golden beet
Leaf lettuce simpson
Danvers carrots
Romaine lettuce
Just right Turnip

April 9/06
Dug out rest of sump pump hose
Dug some of the horsehoe pits
Trimmed hibiscus by front walk,
Put t stakes by small trees
Trimmed mulberry,
Transplanted pachysandra from front to under locust
Split rhubarb and planted one by fence, one by bean bed, one by corn pot potentilla
Transplanted hosta to under middle ivory silk
Transplanted carpet phlox to beside fence
Gave darrel some poplar and willow shoots

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