may 19,20 25

 planted 3.25 rows of pepper in same as last year

Super Hots and Medium

Transplanted tomato from 7201 to 3.5" pots

transplanted Basil to 3801

Wed and THursday rain all day

May 18 garden

 Saturday, may 17- Fireworks Campfire Worship - 95+people

Friday- set up table, umbrellas, gathered wood from fallen pussy willow

Turned on fridge, cut lawn,

Sunday- seed green yellow bush beans Gold Wax, Tendergreen, next to Asparagus bed. Seeded green one side, yellow the other. 8 seeds per half row. 7 rows total

Marco - seeded beets and carrots Nantes coreless 5 rows each

Kaleb- transplanted 2x 1204 of okra, clemson and red and seeded 3or 4 more rows of 3 plants per row

Planted Eggplant in hot pepper bed of 2024- 18 holes- did not move poly

West row                             mid row         east row
Eggplant
2 Fingerling         3 Green Punjab 12 Round Mauve
3 Green Punjab         8 Mitoyo 11 Rosita
4 Italian Pink Bicolor 9 Petch Siam 14 Senshu Kinukawa Mizu
5 Jewel Amethyst 10 Ping Tung W 14 Senshu Kinukawa Mizu
6 Kamo         10 Ping Tung W 16 Thai Long Green
7 Kurume                                         16 Thai Long Green
                                                17 Black Beauty

Planted some sweet pepper in sweet pepper bed of 2024 have to make a list- removed poly added wheelbarrow and a half of compost and turned bed over

Sweet Pepper Bed
West row                 mid row east row
103 Alma                 113 Doux d'Espagne 122 Mini- Yellow
104 Bell- Sweet Chocolate         114 Etudia         128 Sweet Chocolate
108 Black Magic Schwarze Magie 118 Leysa Red        Home Hard Super Shepherd
110 Candy Cane Chocolate Cherry 119 Liebesapfel         Home Hard Super Shepherd
112 Doe Hill Sweet         120 Mini Chocolate Sweet Bell Home Hard Super Shepherd
111 Coral Bell                    121 Mini- Orange Home Hard Super Shepherd

balance of sweet peppers in jiffy 7 in tray with peat moss.

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