April 15-17/2006

April 15/06 warm 17 C. Wore shorts
John says to get chipper started use carbeurator cleaner. Spray into the carberaotr, (take off air filter to access) Alcohol is cold and help burn off carbon
Rosemary trimmed forsythia to take to work
Cut up last of the winter evergreen bouquet and put clippings under telephone pole bed.
Ran rototiller through dead sod and some of the sod from the pipe trench.
Rototilled one row (row 6) of garden, planted Spanish onion sets, planted dutch sets(100 bulb package)
Planted in same row, 1204 of lettuce, 2 kinds, and 809 of sprouts, kale, red cabbage.
Turned over row 2 of garden and balance of row 4. Dug out garlics from garden (all except row 1) planted in locust planter under the area that is under the shader and doesn’t get water.
Seeded ANchusa blue angel in Locust bed along with annual sweet pea (knee high). Left room at end for tomato or other vegetable.
At end of locust planter planted golden swiss chard. Placed glass bee frame and plastic over part of the chard.
In bean bed, planted Linaria Fairy Bouquet in front of yews and in front of the patio stones. Package contains ¼ gram =3,000-4,000 seeds
Looks like some of the new Zealand spinach is growing
From Telephone pole bed, removed birch tree, mulched bed, using some newspaper,
Planted birch by lodense hedge bed.
Seeded sunflowers, some in goutweed, some between mahonia and yucca, by ramp near hicks yew, under some of the trees in front of shed and behind, along the back and side of the shed, some in last year’s corn bed.
Watered seeds, rhubarb,
Bee boxes spinach is just starting to come up, Radish is coming up. No sign of carrots
Root box at back,
Sprayed some roundup on lawn quack grass, some beds, some driveway,
Sprayed killex summer formula on dandelions, clover in lawn, near flagstone, near fence, near white pine.
April 17/06
Trimmed onions
Seed castor beans in black eye susan 809
Fertilized 15-30-15 on seedlings

April 12-14/2006

April 12 ordered from mtn garden center, mulch, soil, soilless mix, 10 flagstone 16by 16, 32 sq ft of interlock, one crimson sentry maple for bean bed.
April 13/06Got 2 pickup trucks full of dead sod from cherrywood ave landscape job. Unloaded by east horseshoe pit and by hammock pergola.
Received 6 yard load of cedar mulch.
Put onions, cabbage, lettuce, parsley, cilantro, and hardy hibiscus on deck to harden off
April 14/06 spread some of the dead sod by the horseshoe pit.
Sprayed roundup on 2 new raised bed by back vege garden, sprayed roundup around squash holes.

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

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

FEb 06

feb 12/06 seeded Grass from Dartnall Rd
Black eye susan 2 by 809’s
Coleus 801
809- black eye susan
Basil 1204
Hibiscus rose mallow 809 2 pp
Pepper-2pp- 809 3-Firecracker, 3 ornamental, 3 west Indian
Parsley in 4” pot covered with plastic bag

Feb 18/06 schefflera from church put cuttings in bag with rooting hormone
Feb 24/06
Of feb 12/06 coleus is largely up, basil is up, parsley is up, one grass seedling, one hibiscus is up
Seeded 3 types of onion- copra,candy, redwing and leeks,
809- 2pp- 3 brussel sprouts, 3 kale, 3 red cabbage
1204-cilantro 3pp
1204 – hibiscus

2006 Seed order from William Dam Seeds

Bean-Liana yardlong
Bean-kentucky Climb
Beets- Burpees golden
Swiss Chard Bright Lights
Swiss Chard Gold Sunrise
Swiss Chard Ruby Red
Brussel Sprouts-Jade cross
Cabbage Primero
Carrots-Danvers
Cucumber- Marketmore
Endive- Broadleaf Batavian
Eggplant- Dusky
Eggplant-Fairy Tale
Kale-Nerodi Toscana
Leek-Jolant
Lettuce- Leaf Bonvivant mix
Lettuce-Baby Star
Cantaloupe-Delicious
Onion Candy
Onion Copra
Onion- Redwing
Pepper- Calif Wonder
Radish- white Eiszapfen
Spinach New Zealand
Spinach Space
Spinach Bloomsdale
Squash Summer Medley
Squash- uchiki Kuri
Tomato-brandywine
Turnip- just rite
Basil-Sweet
Cilantro-Leisure
Fennell-Florence
Anchusa-Blue angle
Coleus-Wizard
Convolvulus- Royal Ensign
Malva--Mystic Merlin
Linaria-Fairy Bouquet
Poppy- Calif Ballerina
Sanvitalia-Creeping Zinnia
Sweet pea Knee High
Zinnia- Persian Carpet
Plug Tray
Drip Kit

Seed Order Planning for 2006

	Gerry Okimi
	Dec 15/05
								2006	2006
		item #		WillDam		Feb	April	May	Sow July
	Bean-Liana yardlong	A74	pkt	3.95	bean			Sow May
	Bean-kentucky Climb	A70	40g pkt	1.65	gdn			Sow May
	Beets- Burpees golden	83	pkt	1.85	gdn		Sow April		Sow July
	Swiss Chard Bright Lights	93	pkt	1.95	gdn		Sow April
	Swiss Chard Gold Sunrise	94	pkt	1.65	gdn		Sow April
	Swiss Chard Ruby Red	92	pkt	1.65	gdn		Sow April
	Brussel Sprouts-Jade cross	108	pkt	2.45	gdn	Start inside	Plant April	Plant Early	Sow July
	Cabbage Primero	131	pkt	2.25	gdn	Start inside	Plant April	Plant Early	Sow July
	Carrots-Danvers	163	pkt	1.60	gdn		Sow April		Sow July
	Cucumber- Marketmore	206	pkt	1.60	gdn		Start inside	Plant May
	Endive- Broadleaf Batavian	215	pkt	1.60	gdn		NO	Sow May	Sow July
	Eggplant- Dusky	A223	pkt	1.95	gdn	Start inside		Plant May
	Eggplant-Fairy Tale	A223	pkt	2.95	gdn	Start inside		Plant May
	Kale-Nerodi Toscana	98	pkt	1.65	gdn	Start inside	Plant April	Plant Early	Sow July
	Leek-Jolant	226	pkt	1.75	gdn	Start inside	Plant April	Plant Early
	Lettuce- Leaf Bonvivant mix	247	pkt	1.65	hives		Sow April	hives	every 2 weeks
	Lettuce-Baby Star	232	pkt	1.95	hives		Sow April	hives	every 2 weeks
	Cantaloupe-Delicious	256	pkt	1.65	gdn		Start inside	Plant May
	Onion Candy	272	pkt	1.85	gdn	Start inside	Plant April	Plant Early
	Onion Copra	227	pkt	1.75	gdn	Start inside	Plant April	Plant Early
	Onion- Redwing	A276	pkt	1.95	gdn	Start inside	Plant April	Plant Early
	Pepper- Calif Wonder	320	pkt	1.65	gdn		Start inside	Plant May
	Radish- white Eiszapfen	346	pkt	1.65	gdn		Sow April		Sow July
	Spinach New Zealand	359	pkt	1.65	gdn		Sow April		Sow July
	Spinach Space	352	pkt	1.75	gdn		Sow April		Sow July
	Spinach Bloomsdale	355	pkt	1.60	gdn		Sow April		Sow July
	Squash Summer Medley	a382	pkt	1.95	gdn		Start inside	Plant May
	Squash- uchiki Kuri	D362	pkt	1.85	squash		Start inside	Plant May
	Tomato-brandywine	B377	pkt	1.75	gdn	Start inside		Plant May
	Turnip- just rite	388	pkt	1.75	gdn		Sow April		Sow July
	Basil-Sweet	411	pkt	1.60	pots		Start inside	Plant May
	Cilantro-Leisure	429	pkt	1.60	gdn			Sow May
	Fennell-Florence	433	pkt	1.60	gdn		Sow April	Sow May
	Anchusa-Blue angle	1260	pkt	1.60			Sow April
	Coleus-Wizard	1508	pkt	1.85		Start inside	take Cuttings	Plant May
	Convolvulus- Royal Ensign	1509	pkt	1.60			Start few inside	Sow May
	Malva--Mystic Merlin	1574	pkt	2.95				Sow May		reseeds itself
	Linaria-Fairy Bouquet	1575	pkt	1.60			Sow April
	Poppy- Calif Ballerina	1969	pkt	1.60				Sow May
	Sanvitalia-Creeping Zinnia	2010	pkt	1.60			Start few inside	Sow May
	Sweet pea Knee High	2086	pkt	1.60			Sow April
	Zinnia- Persian Carpet	2235	pkt	1.60				Sow May
	Plug Tray	P-200	set of 5	14.95
	Drip Kit	5025		35.95
	Subtotal			128.60
	S& h			6.95
	Total			135.55
	Taxes			20.33
	Grand Total			155.88
	have
	Collards							Plant Early	Sow July
	Lettuce Romaine							Plant Early	Sow July
	Lettuce Simpson Leaf							Plant Early
	Endive							Plant May	Sow July
	Basil
	Hibiscus
	Parsley							Plant Early
	castor beans					Start inside	Start inside	Plant May
	squash butternut ??					Start inside	Start inside	Plant May
	Sweet Pea
	Saved Seed
	castor bean
	butternut squash
	parsley
	pennistum grass
	ornamental corn
	hibiscus
	purple millet
	firecracker pepper
	cayenne pepper