Wednesday, August 4, 2021

Green crop seeded August 3

 2 beds see




ded with green crop cover crop.

Divided each bed in to quarters.

Seeded milling oats and tillage radish

Radish daikon calculated at 8-9 per square foot but actually seeded more.

Prepped beds with a bag of leaves and added a wheelbarrow of triple mix, turned the bed over. Lots of bindweed roots starting to form.









Thursday, July 22, 2021

update July 21-2021

peppers- bishops cap?
few green chilies from orange or yellow cayenne
one pepper started on Friariello

Mini pepper have green fruit


potatoes growing like crazy

sweet potato
peanuts in bloom

tomato cherry

catalpa seedlings- 3 pots from april 23 (sowed 3 pots 4pp)
 

Tuesday, July 20, 2021

fruit tree guillds

 rhubarb that was between paper towels has started to sprout- both victoria and german wine

put them into 3 1204's - added some extra seeds as well

seeded in rest of 1204 basket of gold alyssum and pink lupins


Reading about Fruit tree guilds

so underneath plant garlic, daffodils, oregano, yarrow, nitrogen fixers- maybe clover

, comfrey and bee balm,

buy comfrey and monarda seed

need to put more mulch around trees.


Amaryllis seeded- one sprout is up, also Blood orange has germinated

repotted ginger from shallow bonsai pot into a deeper pot- hanging basket



Tuesday, July 13, 2021

Oriental Poppy root cutting july 13, 2021


dug out a long root from the poppy'
cut into 4-6" pieces put into pots
red oriental poppy Beauty of Livermore



 

Red russian from back july 13/21

was planted in the former Red Russian scape bed so there for suree were bulbs lost in the soil
These grew up the holes
Likely made some regulars smaller due to competition

Planted 98
17 jumbo
Xl 36
Large 25
Medium 15
Small 7
Total 100 a couple of splits likely

Kept the volunteers separate from the ones set in the 7 by 7 grid
There were the following (couple were outside the bed)
3 xl
1large
7 medium
18 small
14 xsmall
11 xxsmall
Plus some rounds

Japanese Garlic harvest Front July 12-21

1 jumbo,  one large, rest were XL about 10
several came up falling apart
that makes only 15- planted 21- did J take a few?






 

Thursday, July 1, 2021

Canada Day 2021

 Found Chinese Elm seedling in truck liner and in gravel.
Transplanted about 50 to 7201 tray- mostly singles, a few 3pp

Fed pepper, eggplant with shake and feed long lasting fert about 1/2 Tbsp each plant

Dug back Japanese, Purple Glazer, Rose de Latrec Garlic

Moved Trellis D to Ash Stump will plant Pigeon Pea vine there

Last Night 
put Haworthia leaves into tray in the basement