May 15 Verandah Poly taken down

 took down poly

moved Ports to gobo area

rest to under the lilac trees- cereus, easter cactus, fishbone, wandering jews, spider plant, schefflera, tamarind

Peppers and eggplants on deck

planted anuals in pots,= Vista purple salvia, Bonanza orange marigold, begonia, EZ rider Deep Salmon petunia

in bloom- alyssum basket of gold iberis, lamium spotted dead nettle, carpet phlox,

Dusty miller is doing well

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May 11, 2025

 Garden- took branches to hay field- from walnuts, rebuds culled last fall, fallen corkscrew willows, and pussy willow branches that broke

Veggies- rototilled second time, FIrst time was thursday

Spinach- nothing came up- re-seeded more Bloomsdale

Beets- seeded fill from previous , add new bed of seeds

Lettuce transplanted lettuce to new spacing

Rhubarb- Rosemary pick a bunch from back bed

Asparagus- been picking for about 1 week

Gladiolus- Jackie planted about 72 corms also planted Dahlia from 2024

Mushroom compost delivered last Monday- Jackie has been spreading some

Cukes and squash seedling are up

made bottle for keeping bird bath filled

hung up new Cobalt metal bird feeder

May 7, 2025 blooms

 

Bloom time May 4 2025

 

Apricots petals have fallen, Pear and Peach are in bloom, 

Apples starting to show colour

Weeping cherry is in bloom

Haskap (most westerly is bloomin)

Sour cherries- middle one blooms first,then the eastern one, and the western one still waiting.

May 3 seeding Squash, cucumbers

 Romanesco,  Grey

Zucchini, black, trombocino, Sebring (yellow) in 1204

Cucumbers

Martketmore

Armeniian Long

Lemon

White

Castor Bean Seeding April 24, 2025

seeded 2x 1204''s each

2 packs of Carmenciat

2 packs of New Zealand

put 2 seeds per cell- used 16 seeds of each.

placed in verandah.

 

Seeded tomatoes and more

 seeding tomatoes in 6 x 12 cell pack

	Variety	grow25
1	Amish Paste	25
2	Ananas Noire,	25
3	Beefmaster	25
4	Black beauty	25
5	Black from Tula	25
6	Brandywine Pink	25
7	Brandywine True Black	25
8	Bulgarian Old Sort	25
9	Cherokee Purple	25
10	Costoluto Genovese	25
11x	Garden Treasure	25
12	German Pink	25
13	Golden Jubilee	25
14	Green Stripe tomato	25
15	Green Stripe Zebra	25
16	Green Zebra	25
17	Grightmire	25
18	Kellogg's Breakfast,	25
19	Missouri Pink Love Apple	25
20	Old German	25
21	Opalka	25
22	Pineapple	25
23	Pork Chop	25
24	Prairie fire	25
25	Principe Borghese	25
26 x	San Marzano	25
27	Sart roloise	25
28	Queen of the Night
c1	Black Strawberry	c25
c2	Brad's Atomic Grape	c25
c3	Gull Lake Cocktail	c25
c4	Indigo Blue Beauty	c25
c5	Pinky Blast	c25
c6	Indigo Pear Drops
d1	Caitydid	d25
d2	Gold RaVE	d25
d3	Lucky Swirl	d25
d4	Metellica	d25
d5	Purple Reign	d25
d6 x	Roma	d25
d7	Star fire	d25
d8	Tasmanian Chocolate	d25
d8	Uralskiy Ranniy	d25
m1	Banana Toes	m25
m2	Baxters bush cherry	m25
m3	Chibikko	m25
m4	Pinocchio	m25
m5	Raspberry Ruffles	m25

 Also Basil: Lemon, Cinnamon, Thai, Dark Opal, and regular Basil

Kale- Red Russian

Lemon Grass