Monday, October 20, 2014

Crocus planted be ramp

12 bulbs from dollar store $2

Monday, October 6, 2014

Seeded chocolate habernaro pepper in peat pots

October 6/14 last soybean harvest

Could be fuller but odd one getting to yellow green stage
But mostly green

Sunday, October 5, 2014

Squash harvest at front October 5/14

the squash field before picking
the kaboucha harvest- not a lot of big ones
half of the butternuts
the other half- each half about a wheelbarrow full
lots of large sized butternuts, lots of gourd shaped ones
A lot of surface pockmarks- due to leaves on the fruit and then decaying??

Friday, October 3, 2014

Chocolate habanero pepper

From peter cashin and Lenna Rhodes
Plus some unknown pepper

Sunday, September 28, 2014

Begonia cuttings

Clipped a few stems of begonia from senior apartment planted boxes
Trimmed bottoms put in bottle with water
Put a stick of willow in jar- maybe the rooting hormone from the Willow will help

Cuttings all rotted and did not form any callous or roots.
Discarded the stems in a couple of weeks

Sept 29/14 tasks

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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