Notes
- Nice and sunny, 18 c
- A few robins and starlings out enjoying the garden
- Lettuce and Kale have sprouted
Tasks
- Move rocks to new location to keep grass underneath from dying
- Weed garlic mustard, Alliara petiolata, from around the garden
- Water garden with specific attention to seedlings and newly planted seeds
Garlic mustard removed from the garden |
May 14
Planted From Seed
- Burpee's Picklebush cucumber
- Cubit's Marketmore cucumber
- Hubbard squash from the seed library
- Burpee's fordhook zucchini
- Burpee's brittle wax beans
- Burpee's Stringless green pod bean
- Burpee's organic rothild carrots
- Cubit's Citrullus lanatus sugar baby watermelon
- Yellow cantaloupe from the seed library (2014)
- Mckenzie organic early wander top beet
- Dark red Detroit beet from the seed library (2015)
Tasks
- Lay down crushed rock and sand to improve path
- Start cleaning and priming rain barrels to protect from UV rays which promote algae growth
- Pinch aphids on currant bushes
Notes
- Are red spots on fruit trees a kind of scale?
May 12
Tasks
- Look for aphids on currant bushes
- Water pots and raised beds
- Weed around the edge of the garden
- Add scraps to the compost
- Move rocks
Notes
- No aphids found on currants
- Looked like rain was on the way
- Mint is showing up in raspberry beds, should it be moved?
May 10
Tasks
- Mulch mound near vermiculture bins and currant bed
- Edge currant bed with stone
- Move gravel and stone to better location
- Aphids have moved on to third currant bush, mostly on the very young leaves
- Small, striped, oblong critters also spotted on currants, hopefully ladybug nymphs
- Weather has been very cold and wet for all of May, today is sunny but still cold, 10 c
- Asparagus is starting to sprout and feather
- Lettuce under row cover has filled gaps from last week's thinning
- Transplanted lettuce was accidentally buried with thick mulch, has now been saved and is still alive
May 7
Tasks
- Move mulch
April 28
Tasks
- Water all seeds
- Check currants for aphids
Notes
- Parsley doing well
- More asparagus is coming up
- No signs of aphids on currants but leaves look worse than last week
April 26
Planted
- Red amaranth
- Green mustard
- Parsley
- Water seeds
- Weed grass from garden beds
- Plant rosemary transplant
- Make tile markers for new seeds
- Mint is spreading in the herb bed so it has been transplanted to spot against the building where grass doesn't grow
- Asparagus is thick and tall, lovely to pick except it won't be ready until next year
- Columbines very bushy and in bud
- Beebalm is spreading
- Spurge is blooming
- Baby trees are popping up everywhere
- One of the pear trees has leaves
- Currants have leaves
- Two of the currants have brown spots on leaves, internet says it's aphids but very few aphids have been found for such large spots
- Currants have been given worm castings and leaf mulch to boost their immune systems
- Two Currants have buds and flowers being pollinated by ants
- Snow peas and sweet peas are sprouting
April 21
Tasks
- Bury tube to bring water from eavestroughs to garden
- Water seeds
- Clean out rainspout diverters
April 19
Tasks
- Hook up hose
- Clean dirt from wooden structures to extend lifespan
- Prune raspberries
- Redistribute some mulch
- Water seeds
- Pick up litter
Notes
- Weather partly cloudy, rained earlier in the day 17 c
- Burpee's Simpson Elite lettuce and Silvia lettuce planted on April 9th both sprouting
- Burpee's Forchuk Giant swiss chard and spinach not yet visible
- Cultivated strawberries are vigorous and have spread somewhat
- Wild strawberries are vigorous and have spread thickly
- Parsley came back
- One asparagus plant has three thick spears
- One kale plant came back
- Rhubarb and chives are thicker than last year
- Four clumps of sorrel have sprouted up thickly
- Insects are already eating green chard
- Grass growing onto south edge of mound near vermiculture bin
- Snow peas planted in old recycling bin not yet up
- Garlic growing tall
- Blueberry buds coming along well
- Currants in leaf
- Pears and apples are starting to bud