MAY 24 WEEK 2026

 May 25 monday - planted carrots and beets, transplanted lettuce

Kuroda Carrots Baby Finger carrots

Red Ace Beets and Golden Beets

May 28 2026 applied nematodes

 Bought 10 Million nematodes from NIC Natural Insect Control -rec;d a few weeks ago, kept in fridge. treats 500 sq ft of garden 0r 16 4x8 ft beds

Wrung out sponge into 16 litres of water. add one litre of nematode concetrate into 7 litre watering can, sprinkled on each bed. Beds were watereed last night and again this morning. and then watered right avter and latler in the afternoon. Insturctions say to water ofr 3-4 days.

Planted Eggplant 2 4x8 beds 

bed one 2 rows of 4 ( iinluding 1 Black Beauty bought in 4" pot earlier this year

Bed two 2 rows of t- Seedlings- Casper, Ping Tung, Green Thai

had 16 1204 from Green MountaiN Gardens\$32.99 for flat of 12 (petunia, allysum, marigolds

May 25

Seeded Carrots Kuroda Carrot Baby Finger

Seeded Red Ace Beets and Golden Beets

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 transplanted lettuce from various beds to the cabbage and lettuce/carrot beet bed.

Mandevilla Planted at base

 Mandevilla plant- $15.99 had 2 cuttings- so split into 2

planted at base of pine and base of viburnum

Split Pomegranate plants from spider plant pot- 4 plants total- still only 6" tall

Monday May 18, Victoria Day Took Down Verandah Poly

 

Put night blooming cactus on table near ramp

put spider and wandering dudes at fence

Put ports by gobo stand

brought veggies out on May 18 to bask in the sun

Put small jade plants by sink, large jade under mulberry

Large aloe over by entry fence

mother of thousands on bird bath table near weeping cargana

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Sunday Monday Tuesday- really warm temperatures- high 20's

Warmed up pool and had people over for a pool party

Sunday May 17- planted 49 Spanish Onion Sets under landscape fabric

Transplanted a row of round Radicchio - Chicory

squash seeds and seeding 2026

 planting Jumbo pink Banana fresh seed- can save seed - only maxima this year

Zucchini, sugar pumpkin, acorn can cross - don't save seed

trombocino- and  butternut- don't save seed this year- check on trombochino if tree

planted red cabbage and red lettuce plants

 bought 2 4" pots of red cabbage and red lettuce from Cayuga Home Hardware this monday $3.95 each

had 3-4 plants per pot

Split the pots and planted separately 3 cabbage 4 lettuce plants.

cabbbage says treated with bio insecticide

Pink Wisteria rooting trial

 April 28, 2026

Pink wisteria cut a number of stems from top of the vine

Last yea

rs wood and year before

soaked in water+ rooting hormone for several days then stuck into the sand and peat bed