April 12/08 part 2

Box garden, prepared #1 for onions
#2- planted bloomsdale spinach between Detroit red beets, , rainbow carrots, beets cylindra
Sewed icicle radish between ruby red chard
Planted rapini, green onions, with buttercrunch lettuce (1/2 row) and 1.5 rows prizehead.
Sewed sugar snap peas in harp garden

Planted from Hwy 56 guy, emerald cedars by pole garden, white pine in front of shed, white pine back of shed, planted balsam fir by Chinese elm,
Moved lilacs from under hawthorn by road,
Took green euonymus that was rooted from under snowballs and put under the back deck
arbor bed – trimmed cedars by, trimmed euonymus, cleaned up dogwoods, trimmed wisteria
Trimmed cedars by firepot,
Transplanted coleus into 1204, about4-5 per cell, put under lights downstairs.

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

April 11-12/08

April 11 transplanted 1 tray of cal wonder, mini yellow and cayenne pepper

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

March 30/08

March 30/08- snow still on ground, weather cooler than normal, in 07 had done 4 days of fertilizing, this year won’t start til maybe end of this week
Fertilized seedlings with 10-52-10 12.5 ml(1/2 of the iron measuring cup) in 1.89 litres water
Onions are up, with second trimming, asparagus starting, basil, rapini, broccolis, are up big, peppers/eggplants just starting to poke through
Sowed rest of Allysum Saxatile in mushroom bos
Sowed in mushroom box 6 rows of tomatoes, 1 row each of red and yellow pear, 1.25 rows of sweet million and 2.5 rows of brandywine

March 16/08 seed tray

March 16/08 seed tray
20 dusky eggplant
20California wonder 2 pp
7 Charming Eggplant
12 Farmers’ Long Eggplant
13 Asian Bride Eggplant
16 Admiral pepper yellow 1pp
2 ornamental mini pepper hot 3pp
10 red mini pepper 2pp
10 yello mini pepper 2pp
10Cayenne 2pp
5 Firecracker 3pp
10 Rapini 2pp
5 collards 2pp
20 California wonder 2 pp
10 broccoli 2pp
20 collected sml basil
3 okra
4 hollyhock 2pp
2 tomato polfast

yogurt
1 pepper mint
1 karge basil
2 ri=ose of Sharon
2 arabis
1 mushroom petunia collected from U Ralph and HGSC
1 mushroom coleus rainbow

Mar 2/08 -10C lots of snow

Mar 2/08 -10C lots of snow
Seeded Asparagus Millenium Hybrid in mushroom box, 33 seeds
Seeded Onion copra, Onion Super star, onion redwing, onion candy,
Seeded Leek Autumn Giant 1/ pkg
mushroom box, under plastic greenhouse tray cover.

Fertilized with 10-52-10 1 portulacaria, rosemary, aloe, figs, pepper, cactus-star fruit, philodendron, dieffenbachia, hoya, schefflera
Penguin arrowhead seems to have dried out.