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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Showing posts with label yew. Show all posts
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Sunday, September 28, 2014
Sunday, July 6, 2014
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
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
Tuesday, January 14, 2014
Thursday, May 30, 2013
Monday, May 21, 2012
Harp rail straightened
Pounded down rail post
Put screws into all joints
can see yew and mockorange
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Seedling Yew
Planted 1 gal potted yew at corner of deck
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Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Coleus white impatiens
Planted impatiens under the locust
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Sunday, April 5, 2009
April 5, 2009 Sunday
April 5/09 Greg’s bday, Kev/Jack/al, fina/Franco, Amy, Dave greg, gpa here for brunch
Trimmed spirea from garage side front, took out all large stems
Trimmed back mahonia by front porch back hard, stuck some stems in soil to see if will root
cut yew back along front edge to allow rockery stone to show
Trimmed hydrangea Annabelle back and hydrangea ivy . stuck some cuttings in soil to see if will root
Planted Spanish onion and dutch sets about 10 per row in box, seeded some broccoli in between
Filled one bee box by deck, Seeded leaf lettuce,
Rapini started to come up, spinach just starting,
Elephant garlic looks squishy? Did it survive winter.?
Good crop of peppers/eggplant starting
Coleus starting to come up
Grass and fibrous begonias- no sign of germination
Put pansy, onions from jan seeding, lettuce and broccoli out side to harden of
Cut pussy willow stems.
Brought figs out from garage- stems look dry, bud starting to get green??
Trimmed spirea from garage side front, took out all large stems
Trimmed back mahonia by front porch back hard, stuck some stems in soil to see if will root
cut yew back along front edge to allow rockery stone to show
Trimmed hydrangea Annabelle back and hydrangea ivy . stuck some cuttings in soil to see if will root
Planted Spanish onion and dutch sets about 10 per row in box, seeded some broccoli in between
Filled one bee box by deck, Seeded leaf lettuce,
Rapini started to come up, spinach just starting,
Elephant garlic looks squishy? Did it survive winter.?
Good crop of peppers/eggplant starting
Coleus starting to come up
Grass and fibrous begonias- no sign of germination
Put pansy, onions from jan seeding, lettuce and broccoli out side to harden of
Cut pussy willow stems.
Brought figs out from garage- stems look dry, bud starting to get green??
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
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
Thursday, April 10, 2008
April 6-10/08
April 6/08 Put beeboxes back along deck, added some potting mix,
April 6/08 Started Hardwood cuttings in 5 inch pots, Hicks yew, silver dogwood, Korean lilac, purple ninebark, gold cypress, rose of Sharon, forsythia, Andorra, used #2 rooting hormone
April 9/08 seeded beeboxes:1- green onion, 1 bloomsdale spinach, 1 white radish, 1 lettuce buttercrunch/prizehead
April 10/08 put Rapini in fifth box
April 9,10 Cuttings, mint julep, viburnum carcephalum, spirea from front garden,
Transpl collards, brocc, rapini
Rain put onion and collards etc outside
April 6/08 Started Hardwood cuttings in 5 inch pots, Hicks yew, silver dogwood, Korean lilac, purple ninebark, gold cypress, rose of Sharon, forsythia, Andorra, used #2 rooting hormone
April 9/08 seeded beeboxes:1- green onion, 1 bloomsdale spinach, 1 white radish, 1 lettuce buttercrunch/prizehead
April 10/08 put Rapini in fifth box
April 9,10 Cuttings, mint julep, viburnum carcephalum, spirea from front garden,
Transpl collards, brocc, rapini
Rain put onion and collards etc outside
Saturday, May 13, 2006
May 1-13/06
May 1/06 am fertilized 15-30-15, beeboxes, onions, root box, crimson sentry maple, yews, rhubarb
May 2/06 pool opened today, watered hammock lawn heavily
May 7/06 sunny warm
Cut lawn for first time, about 3 hrs, rosemary rode, I used push mower
Filled spinach bed with soil, seeded new Zealand spinach 1 pakg, 4-6 inches apart 3 rows
Mulched elderberry bed, caragana bed, redbud bed, ivory silk lilac beds
Spread sod by shed, ran over with tractor, seeded and watered.
May 11 put coleus, tomatoes, peppers etc by front door, so they wouldn’t dry out as much while we were away.
May 13/06 Justin graduation. Rainy from Thursday til all of next week
May 2/06 pool opened today, watered hammock lawn heavily
May 7/06 sunny warm
Cut lawn for first time, about 3 hrs, rosemary rode, I used push mower
Filled spinach bed with soil, seeded new Zealand spinach 1 pakg, 4-6 inches apart 3 rows
Mulched elderberry bed, caragana bed, redbud bed, ivory silk lilac beds
Spread sod by shed, ran over with tractor, seeded and watered.
May 11 put coleus, tomatoes, peppers etc by front door, so they wouldn’t dry out as much while we were away.
May 13/06 Justin graduation. Rainy from Thursday til all of next week
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
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
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