Thursday, 25 June, 2015

Missed some days in here.

Have finished completely weeding out the strawberry beds.

Will water heavily and fertilize and then mulch heavily with straw. Will lay down paper in the open areas away from the plants for extra protection.

Cleaned out the Golden currant box and will also mulch with black mulch.

We have had to spray Insecticidal Soap all over the gooseberries and the currants due to Sawfly larvae as they are stripping the plants of all the leaves. Only saw a couple after spraying and hand picked them. There were thousands of them so impossible to hand pick them all.

All transplants doing very well. 

Need to start to weed out the veggie beds and the asparagus bed.

Unfortunately cannot tell which are weeds and which are parsnips. May have to wait until they are a wee bit bigger for that part of bed. Next time, allow the weeds to germinate and clear off before planting.

Thursday, 18 June, 2015

Extremely hot day.

Finished all the pathways all around the veggie beds.

Started to weed out the strawberry beds. Finished one of them.

Wednesday, 17 June, 2015

Built the 5th raised bed and filled it.

Planted cougettes both green and yellow, Dad's climbing beans and cucumbers

Tuesday, 16 June, 2015

Another hot, humid day.

Planted out the large square area that Frank prepared yesterday.

Put in a single row of tomatoes, all different varieties, not idea which.  :)

Also put in all the squash, acorn, delicata, butternut and hubbard. They should easily cover all that ground and send their vines all over the tarps.

Also planted out the remaining swiss chard and the lettuce interplanted with the tomatoes in the raised beds.

Lastly I did all the transplanting. All the dahlias into clay pots. The fig into a much larger pot. Pricked out 18 broccoli, 18 kohlrabi and 12 kale into cell modules.

Moved the three cherry bush plants into slightly larger pots.

Potted up all the herbs into a couple of large pots. One for the dill and the basil and the other for the flat leaf parsley.

Very odd weather all day but did not rain other than first thing in the morning.

Has cooled right off this evening.

Monday, 15 June, 2015

Ghastly humidity today.

Laid down the pea stone path between beds 3 and 4 and outside of bed 4.

Frank prepared an area beside the garlic for me to plant squash and more tomatoes. He weeded it and roto-tilled in compost as squash is a heavy feeder.

Sunday, 14 June, 2015

We have beds 3 and 4 in place and filled with triple mix.

Both beds are planted out with heritage varieties of tomatoes.

Interplanted lettuce, spinach and swiss chard.

Sunday, 7 June, 2015

We filled bed #3 with triple mix and I planted out 20 tomato plants.

Continued to clean out the raspberry border. Have done about 10-12 feet of it. Only another 75 feet to go. :(

Got the pea stone paths laid on a couple sides of the new beds.

Saturday, 6 June, 2015

We "rented" Noah for a couple of hours and we got the next two beds installed. Noah completely filled bed #2 with the triple mix. 

I planted out bed #2 with pre-sprouted beans.

Thursday, 4 June, 2015

God awful hot today

Completely planted out first veggie bed with parsnips, carrots and beets

Completed stone paths all around veggie bed

Watered all the strawberries

Wednesday, 3 June, 2015

Finished weeding and mulching the rhubarb

Frank built first raised bed for the veggies which is 3 x 15 feet

I laid down stone path between fence and new veggie bed

I filled the new veggie bed with triple mix (exhausting)