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Picked about 4 cups of wild raspberries and turned into 4 250ml jars of jam.
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Current state of the potato bed. Two varieties apparently don’t deal well with the dryness. I watered here and there but mostly let them be.
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Pickled 1/2 of the scapes, made 12 500ml jars of pickles.
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Harvest of many small bulbs. I consider this a fail and I’ll try to plant earlier next year. Maybe in October?
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Harvested ~2 5gal buckets of scapes.
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Planted out ground cherry starts today. Weather was overcast and calling for a slight rain. Watered in with bacterial water from my fermentation experiment.
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The garlic scapes have arrived!
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Build mini-hugelkultur rings to expand newly planted tree zones. Pulled grasses/weeds, laid down layer of sticks and twigs, 4-6” layer of grass clippings then topped with 4-6” of soil.
Planted a row of echinacea and a butternut squash in the mulberry ring.
Planted a row of chives around hazelnut.
Planted a few ground cherries around the kousa dogwood.
Planted a butternut squash alongside another hazelnut.
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Transplanted out my tomatoes and cucumbers which I started earlier last month.
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Planted several melons today. Direct sown into the new raised bed, and into some large pots.
Varieties were zombie cantaloupe, blacktail watermelon, golden midget watermelon
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Beets didn’t seem to like the transplant. Leaves are growing, but not looking healthy.
Bok choy did very well, turkish rocket is growing slowly, and the kale is not looking very happy, but it’s growing.
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Transplanted tomatoes and cucumbers into the new raised beds today!
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Brassicas and greens have sprouted, but no sign of the borage or calendula yet.
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For some reason the watermelon seeds didn’t germinate. There were a few cantaloupe starts that I planted into the herb garden.
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The first morels found in the front yard were very black. Upon finding these near the wild apple trees on the deer trail I realized the black ones are just older. These ones are lighter coloured. They’ll make a great burger topping for tonight’s dinner.
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Harvested 16 asparagus spears
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Transplanted 2 “Perron Noir” blackberries into the perennial garden.
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Spotted some morels in the front yard may 22
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Current size of all 5 varieties
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Harvested 16 spears
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Harvested 18 spears of asparagus
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The Norway spruce in the front yard is budding beautifully coloured new growth!
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Harvested 15 spears of asparagus
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Transplanted my two pawpaw plants out into the yard. They’re starting to look stressed in their pots (1.89 litre milk cartons) so I dug a couple deep holes in a shady spot under the hop hornbeam. Soil is sandy there so they should like it. The taproot was easily a few inches longer than the carton. Probably 12” long.
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Sowed a mix of greens, brassicas and edible flowers into the middle of the new herb bed.
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Sowed a selection of melons and squash into 5” pots. Left in DIY germination chamber.
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Transplanted ~ 10 raspberry plants into the perennial garden.
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Prepped new bed in perennial garden for raspberries.
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Kale, bok choy, turkish rocket, chiogga beets were transplanted into herb garden. Covered nightly for a week until nights reached around 10°C.
Bok choy took off — would transplant earlier next year and cover overnight.
Rocket is slow, but still alive.
Beets are stunted, not doing much but still alive.
Kale is OK, but is being outgrown by direct-sown kale planted a week later.
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Planted Lapin cherry tree and a double haskap — berry blue and aurora. Transplanted a few Canadian garlic (wild garlic) around the sweet cherry.
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Made a pass with the Coleman hoe over the garlic bed.
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Brought all the plants outside this morning. Tomatoes, peppers, kale, bok choy, Turkish rocket, chiogga beets, pink celery. Trees: Honey locust, turkish hazelnuts, pawpaws.
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Planted two rows of small red and yellow potatoes. They were potatoes from Lufa farms that had sprouted in the cupboard. Planted about 6 of each.
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Sow mix of saved seed: rainbow chard, brassica mix, kale, giant red mustard and borage. Sown in a corner of a newly made lasagna style garden bed; cardboard, leaf mould, light sprinkling of hardwood ash, compost.
Also sowed same mix in raspberry/garlic bed among the not-yet-growing raspberry canes.
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Multi-sown beets are rolling along. Leggy though, as it’s not been warm enough to put outside in the sun. Hopeful we’ll get enough sun soon.
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Planted a couple dozen asparagus seeds in a shallow tray.
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Hatched 7 ducklings
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Put cardboard, compost, and mulch on all the blueberries and haskaps to keep the weeds down this year.
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Planted 8 spuds. Following this method: https://www.instructables.com/Grow-Potatoes-In-Tires/ I’ve put 4 potatoes in each tire, and filled with compost/mulch.
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My cherry which was planted 2 years ago, has flowers. I’m so happy.
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Planted some kale into a wooden seed box I made. Soil is mediocre peat moss with vermiculite, but not much vermiculite. No bottom heat, just cool room temperature.
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Multi-sown into a wooden seed box I made. Soil is mediocre peat moss with vermiculite, but not much vermiculite. No bottom heat, just cool room temperature.
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Planted some pink plume celery into a wooden seed box I made. Soil is mediocre peat moss with vermiculite, but not much vermiculite. No bottom heat, just cool room temperature.
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4 seeds indoors
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4 seeds indoors
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8 seeds indoors
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4 seeds indoors
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10 seeds indoors
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10 seeds indoors
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10 seeds indoors
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Started 10 seeds indoors
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Started 10 seeds indoors
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10 seeds
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10 brocolli
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9 seeds in trays indoors
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Started 10 seeds indoors
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THE POTATO EXPERIMENT
I am growing 3 potatoes of each 5 different varieties in one garden bed.
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Another peppermint? plant, a chocolate variety this time. Can be used for chocolate milk, chocolate desserts and as a garnish.
I intend to use it for bonbons
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What will due quicker, my fig or my plastic plant. It sucks having no green thumbs.
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Germinated wild pawpaws are starting to breach the soil surface.
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Seeds are from wild pawpaw sourced from Ontario. Seeds stored in moist medium in a plastic bag in fridge for 2 years, unsure of viability. Sown in moist coconut coir, with bottom heat.
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Yellow plum cuttings taken from burned out estate in Kelowna, British Columbia. Cuttings taken in December. Planted into moist coconut coir after keeping in cold storage wrapped in moist newspaper. Lightly shaved off bark near base, and dipped in rooting hormone. Using bottom heat in a clear plastic tote to hold moisture and temperature.
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The job is done. Chopped the pruning fine and dropped them in the compost bin. And stuck a few sticks in the ground. I will see how that turns out.
The last year chopped, chopped by me instead SO and almost murdered Lavender, is still alive.
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Haven’t got the foggiest idea what sort of Raspberry mine is. Did I mentioned I’m not a gardener? I just whacked almost the whole lot. I shall see.
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Planted 2 stakes into moist wood shavings and forest soil. Planted stakes were stored in garage for almost 2 months prior to planting.
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Stakes were stuck into moist forest soil mixed with decaying wood shavings, and stored in a garage for almost 2 months before bringing inside. Stored in clear tote with bottom heat.
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Seeds are from wild persimmon, sourced from Ontario. Been refrigerated for 2+ years in a plastic bag, unsure of viability. Planted into moist coconut coir with bottom heat.
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Root growth as already started!
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Garlic bed
I used the small bulbs from last years harvest.
Poked holes in the cardboard and added mixed gloves from the three varieties I saved from last year. Covered lightly with compost, covered with half rotten grass clippings.
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Put 10 seeds in a pot inside to germinate.
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Cleaned and stored 150 heads. Saved 50 heads for planting. 60 heads still hanging for sale.
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Planted 427 cloves of garlic into 100’ x 4’ bed, covered with 2” layer of composted horse manure.
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Stacked in a nursery pot, alternating with partially decomposed wood shavings (5-6 nuts in each layer).
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Stacked in a nursery pot, alternating with partially decomposed wood shavings (5-6 nuts in each layer).
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Planted densely in a nursery pot, mulched heavily. Set in garage to cold stratify.
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Planted in shade garden to cover soil. Later in season than recommended, experimental crop.
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Seeded in shaded bed to keep soil covered. Experimental.
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Acquired some partially pruned suckers. Dug a new bed (lots of clay) and planted out 8 root balls, then trimmed back canes to about 6”.
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Harvested 4lbs, turned into jam yield: 12 250ml jars.
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Harvested five 5 gallon buckets from the red-fleshed tree out front. Was going to juice it, but the crusher motor isn’t spinning. May make some apple sauce with one of those buckets tonight.
Turned one of the 5 gal buckets into apple sauce yield: 10 liters. Using this recipe: https://awaytogarden.com/putting-skins-homemade-applesauce/
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2 fruits
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