Sunday, May 8, 2016

Monday, May 9 - To Do

1.     Plant remaining herb box with sorrel and lettuce
2.     Plant remaining flower boxes
3.     Plant side boxes with lettuce
4.     Weed front bed
5.     Mark all bulbs in old bed
6.     Start transplanting snow drops

7.     Weed remaining 1.5 beds.

Confused Gardener

Poor confused me.  IT professional by day and gardener...uhm...the rest of the time.  I can't figure out whether to keep a gardening journal in pen and paper or online.  So, it has become a mishmash.  Oh well...hobgoblins and all that.

I was quite determined to get ahead on my gardening this Spring.  Last year I was so busy with work, that the garden was a disaster.  So this year, I got busy.

Here's the list of everything I can think of to date, and the completion dates.

Task Priority Time Tentatively Scheduled Completed
Build strawberry patch cages 1.00 3 hours 17-Apr 17-Apr
take mower and weed eaters to small engine repair 1.00 1 hour 18-Apr 18-Apr
clean up branches by fence 1.10 2 hours 18-Apr 18-Apr
weed garlic bed and separate garlic bulbs 1.20 1 hour 18-Apr 19-Apr
Pear tree area - clean up all metal 1.30 20 minutes 18-Apr 18-Apr
mow by pear tree 1.40 1 hours 06-May 06-May
clean out compost area 1.50 2 hours 19-Apr 21-Apr
mow compost area 1.60 1.5 hour 06-May 06-May
chop down old grape vine 1.60 2 hours 19-Apr 19-Apr
move wheelbarrow 1.70 10 minutes 18-Apr 18-Apr
plant Dahlias in butterfly garden 2.01 20 minutes 17-Apr 17-Apr
plant clematis on front porch pillar 2.02 20 minutes 17-Apr 17-Apr
add dirt to triangle strawberry patch 2.03 20 minutes 20-Apr 21-Apr
weed bed by street and mulch 2.04 1 hour 20-Apr 20-Apr
weed front bed and mulch 2.04 2 hours 21-Apr
weed under front window and mulch 2.05 3 hours
mow fence row 2.05 30 minutes 06-May 06-May
weed eat fence row 2.06 30 minutes
plant herb boxes 2.07 1 hour
weed herb bed 2.08 30 minutes 20-Apr 20-Apr
clean out bed next to bulbs 2.09 1 hour
clean out next bed 2.10 1 hour 20-Apr 20-Apr
clean out first bed 2.11 1 hour 20-Apr 20-Apr
clean out next bed 2.12 1 hour
Clean out Rachel's bed 2.13 1 hour 20-Apr 20-Apr
replace bamboo 2.14 1 hour
clean fence area and put down mulch 2.15 1.5 hours
weed bulbs 2.16 15 minutes 20-Apr 20-Apr
mulch tomatoes 2.17 15 minutes 06-May 06-May
weed back triangle 2.18 30 minutes 20-Apr 20-Apr
remove old JoePye bush 2.19 1 hour
Mulch blackberries and prune (add bird netting) 2.20 1 hour
take down and throw out gutters 3.00 15 minues 20-Apr 20-Apr
put out chips 3.00 15 minutes 19-Apr 19-Apr
plant flower boxes 3.00 2 hours
weed chives 3.00 20 minutes 20-Apr 20-Apr
plant blueberry bush 3.00 20 minutes
cover cherry tree with bird screen 3.00 30 minutes
set up irrigation 3.00 4 hours
move euonymous bushes 3.00 4 hours
move elderberry bush 4.00 2 hours
clean out old flower bed 4.00 6 hours
Clean out lavender row and replant. 6 hours 07-May 07-May


Buying a new push mower helped as the area out by the garden was overgrown and is to hilly for the riding mower.  

Rhubarb is up and looks good.  Sorrel is up.  Echinacea is up.  All but 1.5 of the beds in the back are weeded and prepped.


Friday, March 13, 2015

Seed Starting

Started a bunch of seeds.  I moved the two seed starting grow lights upstairs to the sun room.  It is just too cold in the downstairs workshop.

Rachel helped me a lot this year.  She even asked to "garden".


Beef Steak
Risenstraub


Brandywine
Beef Steak
Risenstraub


Brandywine

Black Prince

Yellow Currant
Sweetie


Black Prince

Yellow Currant
Sweetie



Sweetie


Red Currant
Lilliput

Sweetie


Red Currant
Lilliput


Black Cherry
Japanese Eggplant


Cucumber Marketmore
Black Cherry


Japanese Eggplant

Cucumber Marketmore

Small Pie Pumpkin


Watermelon Vista
Honeydew Melon
Big Max Pumpkin


Goddess Cantalope
Hearts of Gold Cantalope

Crimson Sweet Water Melon


Dark Red Detroit Beet
Sugar Beet
Golden Detroit Beet


Dark Red Detroit Beet
Chioggia Beet

California Wonder Bell Pepper

Mini Bell Pepper
De Circo Broccoli
California Wonder Bell Pepper

Mini Bell Pepper
De Circo Broccoli

Calabrese Broccoli


Lacihato Kale
Dwarf Kale
Calabrese Broccoli


Winterbore Kale

Dwarf Kale













All Hail the Fig Tree!

Once again, the fig tree has survived the winter (inside) and is now revealing itself anew.